Hazaribag, May 3 (PTI) Police here on Sunday said three persons accused of looting a bank in Barhi area have been arrested from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, and close to 1 kg of gold has been seized from them.
Around 3.9 kg of gold and cash were looted from the PSU bank within the Barhi police station limits on April 24 by holding the manager and four staff members at gunpoint, a senior police officer said.
Following an investigation, police arrested Saurabh Kumar Yadav, Md Afazal, and the alleged mastermind, Pankaj Singh, near Rajbhar village within the Sarnath police station limits in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi with the help of the Uttar Pradesh police’s Special Task Force.
They also recovered 912.22 grams of melted gold worth Rs 1.28 crore, and Rs 20 lakh in cash, the officer said.
“We arrested three inter-state criminals from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi district with the help of UP STF,” Hazaribag Superintendent of Police (SP) Aman Kumar said.
Also, a sports utility vehicle, two motorcycles and six mobile phones used while looting the bank were seized from the arrested accused, he said.
“We have frozen the Rs 6 lakh they had transferred into a bank account. All three accused have criminal antecedents, and multiple cases are pending against them in several states,” the SP said.
He claimed that during interrogation, the accused revealed the identities of two other associates and stated that the rest of the looted gold and cash were with them.
Police are conducting raids at multiple locations to nab the rest of the accused, the police officer said. PTI RPS RPS NSD
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