ith the arrest of four persons, Chhattisgarh Police on Saturday claimed to have solved the robbery of Rs 1.82 lakhs from the manager of a gas agency here.
Raipur Additional Superintendent of Police Tarkeshwar Patel said those held included mastermind and former gas agency employee Romie Rebelo (21) as well as Arvind Gupta (21), Rakesh Soni (21) and Sanjay Soni (29), all from the city.
On Thursday morning, they robbed the manager of a Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) agency, Surendra Pal Singh, of Rs 1.82 lakhs when he was on his way to a bank to deposit it.
The police came to know that the motorcycle used in the crime belonged to Gupta, who, after initially claiming innocence, named the others too.
The mastermind told the police that he returned to Raipur from Hyderabad in 2020 after losing his job due to Covid-19 and planned the robbery to get money for job hunting.
The police seized Rs 85,800 in cash and two bikes used in the crime.