Gurugram, May 24 (PTI) The Special Task Force probing a Rs 30 crore heist in Gurugram on Tuesday requested a court for permission to conduct a lie detector test on suspended IPS office Dheeraj Setia, an accused in the case.

The STF said Setia may be concealing important leads in the case.

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Setia, who appeared in the court, consented to the polygraph test but demanded that it be conducted in Delhi-NCR, public prosecutor Jagbir Sehrawat said.

In the court of additional district sessions judge Tarun Singhal, the STF sought permission for conducting the test in a place like Hyderabad or Ahmedabad.

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The court is expected to pronounce its decision on the next hearing on May 31. Setia is currently on bail.

The STF also took into seven-day custody another accused, Chetan Mann alias Boxer, after getting him on a production warrant from Delhi. Chetan Mann is a close aide of key accused and mastermind of the heist, gangster Vikas Lagarpuriya.

Two doctors and a Delhi policeman are also accused in the case.

The incident had taken place on August 4 last year. The accused had broken into a flat in Sector 84 here, decamping with Rs 30 crore in cash. An office of a private company was being run from the flat.

The STF visited some suspected places in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab for the recovery of the stolen money.

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