PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE /Rudrapur/Dehradun
Four Excise department employees were arrested in Rudrapur in connection with a theft worth more than Rs one crore in Shimla after police recovered stolen jewellery and cash allegedly kept at an excise checkpoint. The Himachal Pradesh police and Udham Singh Nagar police jointly carried out the operation and recovered valuable property linked to the case.
The police arrested Baljeet Singh, Naeem, Pappu Lal and Devendra Kumar. All four were arrested on the night of September 20 during a joint operation by Himachal Pradesh police and Rudrapur police. The case was registered at Sadar Shimla police station on September 8. Cash, gold and diamond jewellery, watches and other valuables were reportedly stolen from a house. During the investigation, police also came across details of a Nepali woman named Karishma.
Police found that some suspects had travelled from Shimla to Delhi and then headed towards Nepal in a white car through Rudrapur. According to the police, the car was stopped for checking at an excise checkpoint on the Rudrapur-Rampur border around 11 AM on September 8. The vehicle and its belongings were checked after the occupants appeared suspicious. Police said that valuable jewellery and other property linked to the Shimla theft were recovered from the accused. Himachal Pradesh police are conducting further legal proceedings and investigating the full sequence of events.
