Logistics firm staffer held after phone records expose staged Rs70L gold robbery
Pune: Discrepancies in phone location and records exposed a Mumbai-based logistic firm staffer's lie as the Bund Garden police arrested him and cracked a Rs70-lakh robbery in front of Pune railway station on June 11.
The police are searching for his two aides in Rajasthan and Delhi. The robbed gold ornaments, the arrested staffer said, were with the duo.
The police established that the robbery was an insider's 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 the Bund Garden police said, "We arrested Dharmesh Prabhulal Rebari (19) of Rajsamand in Rajasthan. We have identified his two accomplices, both childhood friends. Dharmesh moved to Mumbai about one-and-a-half years ago. Many employees of the logistic company are from Rajsamand. Dharmesh joined the company with their reference with a monthly salary of Rs14,000."
He said, "We checked the CCTV footage of the spot and realised that the two men approached Dharmesh near the prepaid autorickshaw stand.
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It remains crowded during the morning rush hours. When the duo fled after robbing the jewellery, his phone and ID cards, he did not raise an alarm. The CCTV footage shows him moving around the Pune station area. After three hours, he reached the logistics company's Somwar Peth office and informed his office colleagues about the robbery.
His colleagues then informed the Mumbai office. An Andheri-based manager came to Pune and lodged a complaint with us."
The officer said, "We arrested Dharmesh after some intense grilling, during which he confessed to committing the crime with his two aides, now on the run somewhere in Rajasthan or Delhi. Our teams have gone to Rajasthan and Delhi in their search. The duo not only took the gold jewellery weighing 740 grams but also took Dharmesh's ID cards, PAN card and his cellphone."
Gaikwad said, "Dharmesh and the two others were using a social media site to communicate with each other. They did not use the normal calling facility or messaging applications to communicate. The two suspects came to Pune and stayed at Kasarsai near Hinjewadi, from where they reached the Pune railway station area as decided."
The police said the firm staffer confessed to plotting the robbery with his two aides after he arrived in Pune by train to distribute the gold ornaments as usual among the jewellers in the city.
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