18 kg gold loot case: five including him arrested, gold recovered

Junagadh:

The Junagadh police has arrested five people including the driver of the car from which around 18 kg gold worth over Rs 5.5 crores of a noted jewelry house was looted near Vadal in Juagadh district of Gujarat yesterday.

The looted gold has also been recovered.

The driver, who was in to debt of around seven lakh owing to his habit of betting, was the master-mind of the loot.

SP Junagadh Nilesh Jajadiya today said that driver Guatam Majithia who was driving the car in which the gold belonging to Choksi Vachhraj Makanji & Co Ltd (CVM Jewelers) was being brought from Ahmedabad to Junagadh had himself planned the loot almost 20 days back.

He had contacted with some criminals and before leaving from Ahmedabad had intimated them about it. The criminals had overtaken the car and snatched the bag of gold from the employee of the company who was sitting in the car.

Those involved in the loot and identified as Aizaz alias Bapu Iqbal Chisti, Iqbal alias Dado Mohammed Theba, Wasim Habib Chand and Munir A Sidi (all four residents of Junagadh) have been arrested.

Driver Gautam had contacted Aizaz over phone with a different sim before leaving Ahmedabad as per plan. Aizaz was earlier also involved in several criminal cases.

DeshGujarat