The Kurla police have arrested 3 men for stealing a truck full of beer and trying to sell part of the consignment, totally worth Rs 20 lakh, in Nashik, which was recovered by cops along with the rest from Ahmednagar
This trio’s success fizzled out no sooner than it had been achieved. The Kurla police have arrested three persons for stealing a truck full of beer and trying to sell part of the consignment, totally worth Rs 20 lakh, in Nashik district.
Anand Nadukar, Laxmikant Singh and Amol Salve have been arrested for the theft
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As per a police complaint filed by Omprakash Yadav (45), a resident of Mankhurd and liquor supplier, he brought a truckload of 1,500 beer boxes, each containing 12 bottles, on July 14 from Aurangabad to sell them to distributors in Mumbai.
The cases that were recovered
Stolen truck
“I had to supply some boxes in Kurla. So, I parked my truck there and left for home. When I returned the next day, my truck was gone. Initially, I thought it had been towed away,” he said. When he finally realised that his truck had been stolen, he filed a complaint under section 379 (theft) of the IPC.
Laying the trap
The Kurla police caught a break on July 22 when they received a tip-off that the consignment had been taken to a farm in Sinnar, under the jurisdiction of the MIDC police station in Nashik.
A team rushed there and recovered 1,330 boxes from a farmland.
The police then found that a local liquor shop owner, Navnath, had agreed to buy these boxes at Rs 850 per case from three persons. He had, however, not made the payment.
Police says
Sadanand Rane, inspector of Kurla police station, said with the help of Navnath, the police laid a trap for the thieves. Navnath called the ringleader, Laxmikant Singh alias Bunty (32) to collect his payment. When the unsuspecting Singh arrived, he was arrested.
During his interrogation, he revealed that the remaining 170 boxes had been abandoned near Kolpewadi in Ahmednagar district. “A team was sent to the spot and we recovered all of the stolen consignment,” said Rane.
Singh then gave up the whereabouts of his accomplices — Amol Salve (30) and Anand Nadukar alias Chintya (31) — who were picked up from Nehru Nagar in Kurla East.
The trio was produced at the Kurla metropolitan magistrate court and remanded in police custody till July 25.
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