Ahmedabad: City Crime Branch has solved Rs 98 lakh bank cash loot case and arrested a key accused Sudhir Baghel, a driver of cash van who took away a trunk full of Rs 98 lakh cash which was to be deposited in HDFC bank ATM in Ahmedabad on February 23 this year. Crime Branch is in search of another accused Mukesh Yadav involved in this case.

– Sudhir Baghel was ambulance driver in Punjab. Mukesh Yadav is ex-Army man. Mukesh was dumper driver in engineering division of Army. He had stolen two duper trucks and taken them to his village about five years ago. He was announced deserter and arrested for the crime for which he went to jail for three years. After this, he came to Ahmedabad and started driving Bolero pickup van of ONGC since last 9 months.

– Sudhir got job in cash van of private company CMS through Mr. Upadhyay who works in CMS. Sudhir and Mukesh were from same village of Uttar Pradesh. They were childhood friends. They were living together in Ahmedabad’s Chandkheda area in one room – toilet house owned by Dev and Raju Rabari.

– Sudhir would go as driver in cash van and Mukesh would follow him on bike to plan a loot.

– On the day of crime, both offered spiked tea to cash van staff and made them unconscious. Sudhir nad Mukesh fled on bike with a trunk full of Rs 97-98 lakh. They went to a place in Sarkhej where local woman found their movement suspicious. They decided to leave the place and through internal roads managed to leave Gujarat and reach Rajasthan. They had transferred the money to two big bags.In Jaipur, Mukesh and Sudhir parted ways. While Mukesh is yet to be found, Sudhir reached his native village in Etawah district.

– Gujarat police created informers network in and around Sukhaiya village in Uttar Pradesh and camped their by changing identity. Baghel had stopped using mobile phone in order to evade police vigil. He had shaved his beard to get new look. Crime Branch team led by Inspector Chaudhary nabbed him when he was passing on a bike. When inquired, he first refused to accept he was Baghel and gave fake identity.

– Police has recovered Rs 13,000 from Baghel.

– Crime Branch JCP in his briefing said, the other three accused including Mukesh Yadav are yet to be nabbed. JCP Bhatt said Yadav is even more dangerous criminal than Baghel. Bhatt said police is in process to nab Yadav, a person who offered logistic in Jaipur and a person who supplied pill for spiked tea. The accused are former CMS staffer.

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