Around 14 kg gold looted in Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad: Around 14 kg gold, worth over Rs 4 crore, was looted from a
multinational cash logistic company’s vault situated in its office near Mithakali in Navrangpura police station area of Ahmedabad late last night.

The sensational loot in a plush area of the commercial
capital of Gujarat has been recorded in the CCTV camera fitted inside the office of SIS Cash Services, a joint venture with Prosegur of Spain, one of the largest cash logistics service provider in India, which provides cash in transit, ATM replenishment and safekeeping of of valuables such as jewellery, bullion and cash among other such services.

Police said that according to primary information two
masked men entered the office premises of SIS Prosegur after mid night between 2 to 3 am and injured one of the security gunman identified as Satish Chandra, on duty there who fainted after several blows on his head by the looters with some blunt object . They then entered the vault and decamped with around 14 kg gold kept in a box.

The injured guard, who has been admitted to hospital, said there were two security guards there including him. The other one had gone to sleep and he was going to bathroom when the looters entered the company premises and attacked him. He fainted after that.

Meanwhile police and crime branch sleuths are investigating the CCTV footage of the incident and such footage of the adjoining locality to nab the looters.

Police has also not ruled out the role of an insider in the loot.

More details are awaited.

DeshGujarat