Dehradun police have arrested a person on Wednesday on the charge of robbing a bike showroom in Rishikesh. The accused has been identified as Ajit Kumar, resident of IDPl, Rishikesh who is an ex-employee of the show room. Notably, a two-wheeler showroom in Rishikesh was robbed on Sunday night of Rs7.50 lakh in notes of the denomination of Rs2000 and Rs100 with the miscreant leaving the now-recalled notes of the denomination of Rs500 and Rs1000 untouched.
Police have learnt through investigation that Ajit had scrawled on an Rs1000 note that such notes were meant for the poor.
Police have recovered cash of Rs6.85 lakh and a bike from the possession of the arrested. The accused had purchased the bike from the cash stolen from the showroom, police said. Police acted after the owner of the two-wheeler showroom from where Ajit had purchased a bike had informed them that an ex- employee of the showroom where the robbery had taken place had purchased a bike from his showroom.
The accused is learnt to have confessed his crime and based on his information, some of the stolen items were recovered from his possession, police said, adding that the accused had admitted to being aware of the place where his former employer kept the money.
Investigation revealed that Ajit had left the job in the showroom a few days after Deepawali festival. Informing about this, Rishikesh police station in-charge inspector Vijay Chandra Singh Gusain said that Ajit had also decamped with the closed circuit television camera and related equipment in an attempt to to wipe out any evidence recorded on CCTV.