Six People Held Over Rs 10-Lakh Heist In Salt Lake

Kolkata: Police have arrested six of the accused, including the mastermind five days after a gang of around eight miscreants reportedly looted valuables worth over Rs 10 lakh at the residence of Amarnath Chakraborty in the posh Salt Lake township of Kolkata.

Police believe that the mastermind was the cook, employed at a nearby residence in the CE Block and has been identified as Sitaram Das. Das, along with five accomplices – Pappu Yadav (22) alias Pardesi, Manoj Kumar Das (18) alias Congressi, Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Raja Halder (34) and Tapan Purkait (28) were arrested by Bidhannagar Police late last night, DCP Santosh Pandey said Wednesday.

Sitaram, Pappu, Rajesh, Manoj — all residents of Bihar’s Banka district — were arrested from Kestopur area while Raja and Tapan were picked up from Jharkhali and Kultali areas respectively.

Pappu planned the entire crime and contacted these people. He is the mastermind in this case, because he knew the household very well,” Pandey said, adding that the police were also looking whether anybody else was involved in the crime or not.

Police started suspecting Sitaram when he disappeared from the locality after being grilled by detectives the day after the robbery. “We will press for TI parade for a few among those arrested and police remand for others. We need to know where they have kept the looted materials and what they have disposed off,” Pandey said.

Sources in the Bidhannagar Police said some of the looted items were recovered while many others were still missing.