With the arrest of 10 persons including two minors, Chhattisgarh Police on Saturday claimed to have solved a robbery of Rs 50 lakhs from a grain merchant on May 16 night near Dumartarai on Raipur's outskirts. Three accused are still at large.
Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal told The Pioneer that Shiv Kosle, Manish Yadav, Tikesh Chaturvedi, Shashikant Chaturvedi, Banwari Yadav, Suraj Maheshwar, Narendra Banjare alias Bablu, Agam Das, and two minor boys, have been taken into custody.
Efforts are on to nab masterminds Devendra Dhritlahre and Ajay alias Ajju as well as a third person, Tilak, he said.
A group of masked turbaned robbers in three or four motorcycles looted and injured a Raipur-based grain merchant, Narendra Khetpal, of Rs 50 lakhs when he was returning home on Sunday night.
During investigation, Kosle’s name prominently surfaced in the case.
When the police detained Kosle, he confessed his involvement in the crime and named the two masterminds, who were employed as labourers in the wholesale market in Dumartarai besides his other accomplices.
Kosle told the police that they planned to rob Khetpal as they knew that he returns home daily with a huge amount of cash.
On Sunday night, they set out in five motorcycles and looted and injured Khetpal who had Rs 50 lakhs in cash.
The police recovered 7.95 lakhs in cash, five mobile phones and five motorcycles from them.