Cops say three men arrested for Rs 1.55-crore robbery had received information about victim from an accomplice, whose girlfriend worked with a private bank
Cops say three men arrested for Rs 1.55-crore robbery had received information about victim from an accomplice, whose girlfriend worked with a private bank
Even as the Delhi cops claim to have cracked the recent daylight robbery in which a jeweller was looted of Rs 1.55 crore, a revelation by an accused arrested in the case has raised doubts about the safety of customer data maintained by banks.
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Caught: The three accused arrested for the robbery in New Delhi on Monday. PIC/Imtiyaz Khan |
One of the three accused arrested in connection with the robbery at Ashok Vihar has revealed they received the details about the jeweller from an accomplice identified as Jitesh alias Jitu, whose girlfriend worked with the ICICI Bank's Ashok Vihar branch.
The accused also confessed to have followed the jeweller for about 15 days hoping to catch the victim with the sum he had withdrawn from the bank.
On December 16, Puran Chand Agarwal, a jeweller and his daughter-in- law Jyoti were leaving their Ashok Vihar residence to deposit Rs 1.55 core in the Patel Nagar branch of the HDFC Bank when three persons on a motorcycle allegedly robbed them at gunpoint.
On Monday, cops claimed they arrested three persons identified as Vikas Aggarwal alias Vicky, Praveen Goyal alias Vipin and Harshit Prabhaklar from Multan Nagar in northwest Delhi and recovered Rs 70,00,000 from Vicky, Rs 30,00,000 from Praveen and Rs 25,00,000 from Harshit. The latter was arrested from Liberty Cinema.u00a0
The robbery
According to the police, a day before the robbery, the three saw Agarwal carry two bags containing cash into his house. After that they hatched the conspiracy to rob the jeweler.
On the day of the incident, they took positions around the jeweller's house at about 8.15 am. "To avoid suspicion, Vikas gave a pair of jeans to the local washer man to be ironed and stood in front of the jeweler's house pretending to wait to take the garment back. When the businessman and his daughter-in-law were loading the cash bags in their car, Praveen robbed them at gunpoint and fled with the bags. They met at Rama Vihar where they distributed the booty.u00a0 The plan was chalked out by Deepak Gogia, the head of the Gogia gang. Gogia is on the run but we are searching for him and the other accused," said Karnal Singh, joint commissioner of police (Northern) range.
Educated and polished
Meanwhile, a study of the three arrested reveal they were well educated and even held jobs with prominent companies.
Vikas Agarwal is a Commerce graduate from the College of Correspondence, Delhi University and belongs to a well educated family. He worked as an accountant with Bhavya Trading Company at Ajmeri Gate from 2002 to 2006. Thereafter, in 2007 he worked with Max Worth Builder at Netaji Subhash Place. In 2008, he started a real estate business and even opened an office at Sector 24, Rohini. He was friends with Deepak Gogia for the last six to seven years.
Praveen Goyal, who studied up to Class IX, belongs to a middle-class family.u00a0 He worked as an agent with Kotak Mahindra Insurance in 2006, during which he met Deepak Gogia, who too was working with the same firm. In April 2009, Deepak opened a restaurant named Hungry I, near Satyawati College. Goyal was the cashier at the restaurant.u00a0
Harshit Prabhakar did his B.Com from The College of Correspondence, Delhi University, in 2003 and belongs to a well-educated family. He did his schooling from Bal Bharati Public School, Rajinder Nagar, Delhi. He met Deepak Gogia through a neighbour.
