Thane, Nov 5 (PTI) Police have arrested five persons for allegedly robbing a man of Rs 30,000 in cash and other valuables on the Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra’s Thane district, officials said.
The incident occurred on November 2 on the Nagpur-to-Mumbai lane of the highway in the Kalyan taluka, Additional Superintendent of Police, Thane Rural, Anmol Mittal, said at a press conference here on Wednesday evening.
Khan Abdul Farid Abdul Hamid, a 55-year-old resident of Pune, was travelling from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar to Kalwa, Thane, in a car with his driver when five unidentified persons intercepted the vehicle by blocking it with another car.
The accused allegedly threatened the man and his driver with knives and a firearm, looted Rs 30,000 in cash and their mobile phones. They also held the driver captive inside the car for a brief period, the official said.
Based on the man’s complaint, the Kalyan Taluka police registered a case under relevant provisions of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Arms Act.
Mittal rushed to the spot to supervise the probe. With no physical clues at the scene, police used technical surveillance and CCTV footage to identify the suspects.
Police then learnt that the accused had fled to their hometown in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. A team travelled there and arrested the five on Tuesday. They have been identified as Akash Babulal Shewale (21), Akash Mardansingh Usare (23), Gopal Kamlal Bamnavat (24), Durgesh Tarachand Fatpure (21) and Lahu Jaysing Barwal (18), the official said.
Further investigation is underway, the police added.
(PTI News)
