India News | Kolkata Police Constable Held in Robbery Case
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A constable of the Kolkata Police was on Wednesday arrested from his Salt Lake residence in connection with a kidnapping and robbery case involving a businessman, a senior officer said.
Kolkata, Oct 26 (PTI) A constable of the Kolkata Police was on Wednesday arrested from his Salt Lake residence in connection with a kidnapping and robbery case involving a businessman, a senior officer said.
Five arrests have earlier been made in the case, the police officer said.
The policeman, a constable of the Kolkata Police's special branch, was picked up from a residential complex in Salt Lake, near here, after one of his colleagues, held earlier, disclosed his name during interrogation, the officer stated.
A businessman was abducted in June from the city's Lenin Sarani as he was carrying with him a bag containing Rs 1.25 crore in cash. The miscreants had forced him inside a car and after snatching the money, they threw him off the vehicle.
"We have found out that a major chunk of the money looted is still with him. We are still probing the matter," the officer said.
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