The police are suspecting security-guard Srinivas Sharma to be the mastermind behind gold loot from a private finance company at Adityapur police station last evening.
The company security-guard Srinivas along with five others, including another security-guard on Monday evening looted gold worth over Rs 1.25 crore and Rs 70,000 cash from the office of Muthoot Finance limited at gun-point. The company provides loan by keeping gold in mortgage. Company officials claimed that the value of the gold was Rs 2.25 crore
Seraikela-Kharsawan SP Indrajit Mahthe started investigating the case. “We have got major clues and we are confident that Srinivas Sharma, the security guard appointed by Target Security is the mastermind behind the loot. Sharma along with Ranjit, who is his nephew and four others has executed the robbery plan which he had conspired a month ago," said Mahthe.
He said the police have identified three of the six robbers involved in the case, the third one being Rahul Singh, a friend of Ranjit. SP, Seraikela-Kharsawan said Srinivas who hails from Aurangabad district of Bihar, was a criminal person and was wanted by the Bihar police. The SP said that they have sent two teams of police to Bihar and Bengal for tracing the criminals involved in the robbery.