With the arrest of four people, Noida Police on Tuesday claimed to have solved the case of looting 1 kg gold from the employees of a jewellery designing firm in city. Police have also seized cash worth Rs 30 lakh which has been recovered from the possession of the accused.
The accused have been identified as Vikas Singh, Bhupendra Singh alias Goli, Israr, and jeweller Ashwini. Police said that the accused had sold the gold for Rs 30 lakh to the jeweller in Dadri.
According to Vaibhav Krishna, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Gautam Buddh Nagar, on May 20, two-bike borne assailants had looted a car which had the gold that was being transported from Divya Creations’s office in Sector 82 to a jewellery showroom in Okhla when its occupants, the firm’s employee and a driver, were overpowered by the duo at gunpoint.
“The two robbers, their third partner and a jeweller, who had purchased the looted gold from them were arrested Monday evening from Dadri town,” said the SSP.
“The car, a Maruti Ritz, was recovered soon after the incident when police chased the criminals but they had escaped with the looted gold on a motorcycle,” said the SSP.
“Full amount of Rs 30 lakh has been recovered and around half (400 gm) of gold looted has also been recovered. One 32 mm pistol and a country-made pistol have also been recovered from the robbers,” said SSP adding that the case has been worked out in a week.
“Vikas Singh, who worked at a company located near the office of Divya Creations in Noida had hatched the conspiracy. He had got the details of this firm’s outgoing supplies through the dispatch challans that were prepared at the gate no 1 exit for all vehicles going out of the Noida Special Economic Zone (NSEZ). He had procured details of products from the ‘job work’ registered there,” said SSP.
“Vikas Singh had contacted his acquaintances Israr and Bhupendra Singh for the loot. He had already informed Ashwini, who was his friend from school days, for selling the gold,” said the SSP.
“Vikas Singh had reconnoitered the area well and taken all specifics on May 20 afternoon, before going behind the car that was looted at 4.30 pm on a motorcycle,” the SSP added.
“A case was registered at the Noida Phase 2 police station on May 20 under Indian Penal Code Section 392 (robbery) and now charges under the Arms Act have also been pressed against them,” police said.