Six held for Rs 75-lakh heist at CA’s office near CST

“In such robberies there is always an insider leaking information but in this case we got no such leads,” said Manoj Kumar Sharma, zonal deputy commissioner of police.

Police said at the time of the dacoity on October 6, there were four employees present, a servant, an accountant and two trainees. Investigators said they grilled the accused and got a lead when one of the trainees admitted regularly venting office pressures to an employee of a nearby xerox shop less than 500 meters away.

“The employee and the trainee connected because they both hailed from Rajasthan. The trainee for more than a year has been discussing the environment inside the office to xerox shop employee. Details such as the money flow were spoken about very often,” said an officer.
In August, two months before the dacoity, the xerox shop employee befriended Purohit (23) who also belonged to Rajasthan and worked in the nearby Manish market.

“The xerox shop employee used to go to the CA’s office to get paid. On one such visit Purohit accompanied him and he told him of the money inside the CA’s office. That is when Purohit hatched the plan to loot the office,” said Sharma.

Investigators said Purohit got in touch with 21-year-old Modak Rajput who assembled “a team” for the dacoity.

“We suspect there were 11 persons from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Surat and Pune,” said a police officer. Police said the money was in two rucksacks and the Rs 75 lakhs were distributed among the accused depending on their role. The accused have been remanded to police custody till October 26 and the police have only been able to recover Rs. 11.5 lakhs.