Police in Chhattisgarh on Monday arrested four more persons including a minor for robbery of Rs 50 lakhs from a grain merchant on May 16 on Raipur’s outskirts. One accused is still at large.
A group of masked turbaned robbers in three or four motorcycles looted and injured Raipur-based grain merchant Narendra Khetrapal of Rs 50 lakhs when he was returning home on Sunday night.
Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal identified them as mastermind Devendra Dhritlahre and his accomplices Sanju Shrihole (19), Vikas Chaturvedi (22) and a minor boy, all from Raipur city.
Chaturvedi is employed with the grain merchant as a cash recovery agent, Agrawal said. Efforts are on to arrest Ajay alias Ajju, the officer said.
After Dhritlahre was nabbed, he confessed his involvement in the incident and named the others.
He told the police that Chaturvedi informed them that Khetrapal returns home daily with a huge amount of cash.
Police recovered Rs 5.56 lakhs in cash, a motorcycle and a scooter used in the robbery.
Two minors among 10 miscreants were arrested on Saturday who were involved in the robbery.