The Delhi Police has arrested four employees of Muthoot Finance Company including the Assistant Manager, who had hatched a conspiracy to loot jewellery worth nearly Rs 1 crore.
The accused have been identified as Amit Advani (30), Sandeep Khatri (30), Srijeet (29) and Girish Chand (38). The employees had earlier told police that they have been robbed. The police have also recovered gold jewellery weighing 2.6 kg, besides other robbed items.
"The statements given by the accused were not satisfactory and after interrogations, they broke down and confessed to the crime. 2.6 kg gold and Rs 10 lakh in cash was recovered from them," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Alok Kumar. On May 30, a PCR call was made regarding snatching of a bag. Complainant Girish, an office Boy of Muthoot Finance, Karol Bagh, informed that he along with the Assistant Manager Srijeet had gone to lajpat Nagar to bring some jewellery items. At about 7:30 pm, when they reached their office, two persons came on a motorcycle and snatched the bag from Girish at gunpoint. A case was registered at DBG Road Police Station and investigation was taken up.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the statement given by Girish was unsatisfactory. During rounds of examination, Girish broke down and confessed that the bag was not robbed, but he along with Srijeet, Sandeep Khatri and Amit had planned to embezzle the jewellery. and make a false call of robbery. They had earlier met at Central Park to plan the conspiracy.