Three persons, including two Assistant Managers of Thomas Cook (India) ltd (TCIl), were arrested by the Delhi Police at Connaught Place for reportedly staging a fake robbery and misappropriating foreign currency amounting Rs 2.22 crore. The accused have been identified as Sumit Kumar, Rohit Kumar and Rahul Verma.
Sumit, the mastermind, cooked up a story that he was robbed of the currency and was thrown at an isolated spot in Noida. However, an officer privy to the investigation revealed that Sumit changed buses to reach Noida Sector 62. There, he approached the cops and informed his senior.
According to a senior police officer, Sumit and Rohit worked with TCIl, which is in the business of arranging domestic and International Tour and provide travel related services to its customers including foreign exchange, booking of hotels, airlines, railways. While Sumit,, a post-graduate from a private university in Haryana was working with TCIl for two years. Rohit has been with the company for a few months.
To make easy money, Sumit and Rohit along with Rahul hatched a plan to stage a false robbery. However, cops became suspicious when Sumit’s version did not corroborate with his location traced from his call records. Police have recovered the entire amount on Sumit’s instance which was kept at Rahul’s house in Palam colony.
According to the police, the General Manager of TCIl complained that on July 11, at 9.30am, Sumit was handed over Rs 2.22 crore worth Foreign Currency at the company’s Indira Gandhi International Airport T3 branch and was asked to carry it to the company’s Connaught Place branch.
“An hour after Sumit left for the Cannaught Place office, his phone was found to be switched. Neither the CP branch nor Sumit’s family was aware of his exact whereabouts. The Airport Police was also informed of the same by 2 pm. However, an hour later, the GM got a call from Sumit that he has been allegedly kidnapped and robbed of Rs 2.22 crore,” said Special Commissioner of Police, New Delhi Range, MK Meena
According to the police, Sumit alleged that he was picked by the robbers in a car and dropped at Noida Sector 62. He then approached the Noida police and also informed his GM.