The Garhwa police have arrested four thieves in the case of stealing gold and silver worth Rs 50 lakhs from the Kittu-Pari jewellery shop of the city and about Rs 13 lakh from a cloth merchant's shop.Police recovered stolen Cash of Rs 3 lakh 17 thousand 700 hundred from them.
Giving details, SDPO Awadh Kumar Yadav said that a jewellery shopkeeper named Sanjay Soni has been arrested from Sasaram in Bihar. Three hundred grams of gold and two and a half kilograms of silver stolen from jewellery shops have been sold by melting them.
The SDPO said that on the instructions of the Superintendent of Police, a team was formed to solve both the cases. In the course of investigation of CCTV footage the role of the cloth merchant's driver Mahanand Singh initially came under the scanner. When the police strictly interrogated Mahanand, he accepted his involvement in both the cases and exposed the gang involved in it. After this, the vicious thieves Rakesh Chandravanshi and Raju Khalifa were arrested by the police.
When the police came to know after the arrest of the above two in this case that they had sold the stolen jewellery 300 grams of gold and 2.5 kg of silver to Sanjay Soni's in Sasaram. Police arrested Sanjay Soni from Sasaram.
Right now, nothing has been recovered in the theft of Rs 13 lakh from the shop of the cloth merchant, but the investigation is going on where the money has been spent. The SDPO said that all of them were earlier involved in the business of heroin, but after the heroin was caught in Chhattisgarh, these people were broken, after which these people started the business of theft to compensate for it.