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  • How jewelery worth Rs 20 crore was stolen from a jewelery shop in Delhi, master thief will reveal the secret, transit remand approved

    A court in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh has sent Lokesh Srivas, the main accused arrested in the case of jewelery theft worth Rs 20 crore from a jewelery shop in Delhi, to the transit remand of Delhi Police for three days. Police officials said on Tuesday that the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Manish Kumar Dubey sent Lokesh Shrivas, arrested in the jewelery theft case, to the transit remand of Delhi Police for three days. Now Delhi Police will interrogate him thoroughly about the incident.

    Lokesh Shriwas is accused of theft of jewelery worth around Rs 20 crore from a jewelery shop in New Delhi and involvement in several thefts in Bilaspur city, officials said. Civil Lines police station in-charge Pradeep Arya said that the accused Shrivas, arrested on Friday last week, was presented in the court on Tuesday. Accused Shriwas was in police custody in Bilaspur till October 3.

    Arya said that the court has granted three-day transit remand for accused Shrivas to Delhi Police. The court, while giving a memorandum to Delhi Police, said that after three days of transit remand, within the next seven days, Delhi Police will complete its investigation and present the accused Shrivas in Bilaspur. Bilaspur, Delhi, Durg and Raipur police took joint action and arrested Shriwas from Durg district on Friday.

    Gold and diamond jewelery worth about Rs 12 crore and Rs 12 lakh 50 thousand in cash were recovered from the possession of Lokesh Shriwas. Earlier, the police had arrested Shrivas’s associate Shiva Chandravanshi from Kawardha city on Thursday. Police had recovered gold and silver jewellery, vehicles and goods worth Rs 23 lakh from Chandravanshi. Chandravanshi was sent to judicial custody on Friday.

    Police officials said that Shrivas is also accused of theft of Rs 20 crore from a jewelery shop in Bhogal area of ​​Delhi. According to Delhi Police, this theft is one of the biggest thefts in the national capital.

    Police officials said that at the beginning of the week, the accused broke into the strong room of a shop named Umrao Singh Jewelers and escaped with jewelery worth more than Rs 20 crore and Rs 5 lakh in cash. Several CCTV cameras were installed in the shop but they were damaged on Sunday night. The shop owner had closed the shop at around 8 pm on Sunday night. He came to know about the incident when he opened his shop around 10.30 am on Tuesday. The shop remains closed on Monday.

  • Big relief to former MP Darda and his son in coal scam, High Court suspends sentence

    The Delhi High Court on Tuesday suspended the four-year sentence of former Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda, his son Devendra Darda and businessman Manoj Kumar Jaiswal in a case related to irregularities in coal block allocation in Chhattisgarh. The bench of Justice Swarn Kanta Sharma has accepted for hearing the appeals filed against the punishment of the convicts. The sentence has been suspended pending appeals challenging his conviction and prison sentence in the case.

    The High Court has directed him not to leave the country without the prior permission of the court concerned and not to make any inducement, threat or promise, directly or indirectly, to any person familiar with the facts of the case. The High Court has said that it is directed that the sentence imposed on the appellant shall remain suspended during the pendency of the present appeal. In lieu of this, orders have been given to release the culprits on the basis of a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and a bond of the same amount.

    The Delhi High Court had on July 28 issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking its response on the appeal by the three persons challenging their conviction and sentence and granted them interim bail till September 26 in the case. Darda, father-son and Jaiswal were taken into custody on July 26, soon after the special court passed the sentencing order, and were released on interim bail two days later.