Two vicious thieves have been arrested in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh in connection with the theft of Rs 25 crore from a jewelery shop in Bhogal area of Delhi. These accused have been identified as Lokesh Srivas and the other as Shiva Chandravanshi. The police have also recovered a large quantity of gold and diamond jewelery along with cash worth lakhs from the accused. Delhi Police is now bringing these accused to Delhi and the interrogation of the accused is going on.
More than 18 kg gold and diamonds seized
Bilaspur Police of Chhattisgarh today informed that in the case of theft in the jewelery shop of Bhogal, Delhi, Rs 12.50 lakh in cash and more than 18 kg of gold and diamonds have been recovered from an accused in Durg. The main accused Lokesh Shrivas was hiding in Smriti Nagar, Bhilai in Durg district after committing the theft. Meanwhile, Lokesh’s associate Shiva Chandravanshi has been arrested by Bilaspur Police from Kawardha. Police have seized jewelery worth Rs 23 lakh from him.
According to the information, Lokesh Shrivas is a vicious thief, who has expertise in stealing in jewelery shops. Lokesh is said to be a resident of Durg. The police was searching for him for a long time. Even before this biggest theft in Delhi, he had carried out similar incidents at many other places. The accused has already been arrested in a major theft in Parakh Jewelers of Bhilai. Every time he steals, he goes to jail and after being released from jail, he steals again. Accused Lokesh Shriwas targets the jewelery shop every time. He had committed many theft incidents in the state including Durg-Bhilai, Rajnandgaon, Kawardha.
The theft was carried out by cutting the roof and strong room.
Earlier, while giving information about this on Friday, Delhi Police officials said that earlier this week, the accused entered the jewelery shop, broke into the strong room and took away jewelery worth more than Rs 25 crore as well as Rs 5 lakh in cash. Had absconded with it. At least three unidentified people were involved in the theft, which was one of the biggest thefts in the capital.
Police said the shop, Umrao Singh Jewellers, in south Delhi’s Bhogal had several CCTV cameras, but they were damaged around midnight on Sunday. The owner closed the shop at around 8 pm on Sunday night and came to know about the incident when he opened the shop at around 10.30 am on Tuesday morning. The shop remains closed on Monday.