Chhattisgarh Police on Monday arrested six persons over a robbery of Rs 13.50 lakhs in Durg district. Two accused are still on the run.
Durg Superintendent of Police Abhishek Pallava told The Pioneer that Bablu Khan, Ali Sheikh, Ali Mohammad, Tasleem Khan, Anish Khan and Abdul Azim have been taken into custody.
The first hails from Rajasthan and others are from Uttar Pradesh. Efforts are on to nab Parveen Khan and Alam Khan.
They looted Paigamber Singh Mandavi on April 5 when he was returning with one of the accused with money for their payment. All six were nabbed from a train.
They told the police that they trapped Mandavi on the pretext of levelling his farmland through their JCB machine on reasonable charges.
They sought Rs 27 lakhs as payment from Madavi. Mandavi took one of the accused to a bank and withdrew Rs 13.50 lakhs.
The police recovered Rs 7 lakhs from the arrested persons.