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Ludhiana Police on Wednesday arrested two more people in connection with the theft of Rs 8.49 crore from the office of cash management company, CMS-Connecting Commerce, in the early hours of June 10. The case rose to 18. The total stolen money recovery also reached Rs 7.14 crore with a new recovery of Rs 18 lakh.
Police said that part of the 14,000 Indian rupees which one of the accused had hidden in the washing machine at his house in Barnala has been recovered.
In one of the biggest robberies the state has seen, a gang of thieves made off with a sum of Rs 8.49 crore after breaking into CMS office on the late night of June 9-10. Alias Mani, 27, is an employee of CMS, and Mandeep Kaur aka Mona, 29, studied until class 12 but worked as a lawyer.
Earlier, besides the 12 thieves who carried out the robbery, the police also arrested four thieves who stole some cash from the thieves’ car that was parked in Bernala after the robbery.
Ludhiana Police Commissioner Mandeep Singh Sidhu said two more of the robbers – identified as Pawan Kumar alias Jolly and Damanpreet Singh alias Amna – both from Barnala, have been arrested. They were part of a group of thieves who stole cash from the thieves’ car, and Rs 2 lakh each was recovered.
The police also recovered another tranche of 14,000 rupees from Abhi Singla, who was arrested earlier in the case. Sidhu said that during the interrogation, Singla revealed that he had hidden a chip of Rs 14,000 in a washing machine in his Barnala house. He too was part of the group that stole money from the car.
Seidu said that two Wi-Fi modems and five CCTV camera DVRs that the thieves had taken after the crime were recovered from a body of water (Nolah) in Bernala after the defendants revealed that they had dumped them there.
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