Rs 70 lakh gold robbery was insider job, say Pune cops
The police arrested the staffer and are searching for his two aides in Rajasthan and Delhi. However, there has been no recovery of the robbed gold ornaments yet.
The police established that the robbery was an insider job after the staffer gave inconsistent replies. He claimed that two men threatened him at gunpoint. Discrepancies in the staffer's phone location and records, after he narrated the sequence of the robbery to the police, exposed his lie.
Senior Inspector Ravindra Gaikwad of Bund Garden police told TOI, "We arrested Dharmesh Prabhulal Rebari (19) of Rajsamand in Rajasthan. We have identified his two accomplices, who are his childhood friends. Dharmesh moved to Mumbai about one-and-a-half years ago. Many employees of the logistic company are from Rajsamand, and Dharmesh joined the company with their reference, earning a salary of Rs 14,000 a month.
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"We checked the CCTV footage of the spot and realised that the two men approached Dharmesh near the prepaid autorickshaw stand, which remains crowded during the morning rush hours. After the duo robbed the jewellery, his phone, and ID cards, he did not raise an alarm when they fled on the motorcycle. The CCTV footage shows him moving around the Pune station area, and after a gap of three hours, he reached the logistics company's Somwar Peth office, where he informed his office colleagues about the robbery.
His office colleagues then informed the Mumbai office, and they came to Pune and lodged a complaint with us," the officer said.
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