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  • Pile of gold and diamonds was spread in the room, 2 thieves of Delhi caught from Chhattisgarh

    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.

  • First success in biggest theft of Rs 25 crore in Delhi, one accused arrested from Chhattisgarh

    The case of high profile theft of jewelery worth Rs 25 crore that took place in a jewelery shop in Jangpura area of ​​south-east Delhi has now almost been solved. Delhi Police has detained a person from Chhattisgarh in this case. The accused has been identified as Lokesh Srinivas. Police is interrogating him.

    According to the information, Durg Police of Chhattisgarh has succeeded in arresting the vicious thief Lokesh Srinivas with 25 kg of gold. Apart from gold, police have also recovered cash and other jewelery from Lokesh Shriwas. Durg police has detained Lokesh from Kohka. This gold and cash recovered from Lokesh is said to be related to the theft of Rs 25 crore in Delhi. Bilaspur and Rajnandgaon police were also searching for Lokesh for a long time. Even before this, Durg Police had succeeded in arresting Lokesh Srinivas along with 100% of the goods in the case of theft at Parakh Jewelers in Akashganga. At present, Durg police is interrogating Lokesh in another case.

    Thieves entered the showroom by cutting the roof

    Let us tell you that, three unknown people had created a sensation by stealing jewelery worth about Rs 25 crore from a big jewelery showroom named Umrao Singh Jewelers located in Bhogal area of ​​Delhi. The thieves entered the showroom by cutting the roof of the showroom and then broke into the wall of the strong room and escaped with gold and diamond jewelery worth crores. The showroom owner came to know about this theft incident on Tuesday morning.

    While giving information about this on Tuesday, the police had said that this incident is one of the biggest incidents of theft in recent times in the capital Delhi. Police said the shop remains closed on Mondays and the incident is likely to have taken place between Sunday night and Monday.

    The showroom owner came to know about the incident when he closed the shop at around 8 pm on Sunday night and opened the shop at around 10.30 am on Tuesday morning. The shop has a safe on the ground floor, with a heavy metal gate and walls on three sides. Transactions with customers take place on the ground floor of the showroom itself, while its upper three floors are used for storerooms and other jewelery related functions.

    According to the DCP, the shop owner has reported the theft of 30 kg of gold jewelery and Rs 5 lakh in cash. He said that a case has been registered in Hazrat Nizamuddin police station regarding this incident and several teams have been formed to solve the case. Shop owner Mahavir Prasad Jain told that his showroom is about 75 years old.