Cops nab mastermind of over 1cr heist after chase of more than a yr
SHO (Vidhyadhar Nagar) Rakesh Khyalia said
Abhishek Singh
(27), a resident of Mojika Altika Building in the Khoh Nagoriyan area of the city, used the stolen cash to buy a dumper truck and retrieve his wife's jewellery that was pawned in a bank.
Earlier, police arrested four suspects, including a woman, in the case. Police announced a reward of Rs 25,000 for Singh's arrest, but he managed to escape by frequently moving between Haryana, West Bengal, and Uttarakhand.
Singh has over half a dozen cases against him, including of murder, kidnapping, and Arms Act violations. To outsmart investigators, he regularly watched crime shows on YouTube and social media to study police procedures.
The heist took place last year when a person told police that company staffer Vijay Kumar kept a cupboard at his Bhati Complex residence containing Rs 1.5 crore in cash, which was stolen on June 21.
Singh enlisted the help of many of his accomplices, including a woman, Dipti, who befriended Kumar weeks before the crime. Dipti then drugged Kumar during a visit to his home. Then she called in the gang, who loaded the cupboard onto a pickup truck. Singh fled with the truck.
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