Biggest heist in Delhi: Cash van driver makes off with Rs 22.5 crore
Police said that this could be the biggest cash heist in Delhi after the January 2014 gunpoint robbery of Rs 7.69 crore from a businessman at BRT corridor near Moolchand flyover.
By Press Trust of India on November 27, 2015 at 4:30 AM
New Delhi, Nov 27: In what could be the biggest cash heist in the national capital, the driver of a cash transit van allegedly fled with around Rs 22.5 crore from southeast Delhi’s Govindpuri area today. In the incident which was reported at 5:45 PM, the armed guard accompanying the van asked the driver to stop the vehicle near Govindpuri Metro station so that he could relieve himself by the roadside, said police. The driver, identified as Pradeep Shukla (35), told the guard that he would wait for him in a lane nearby and was last seen taking a sharp turn. When the guard returned, the vehicle and the driver were nowhere to be seen, said police.
The guard, Vinay Patel, informed the matter to his senior at the security agency operating for Axis Bank, whose cash the van was carrying, police said. Notifying police of the matter, bank officials said they had sent four cash transit vans — with total cash of around Rs 38 crore — from their Vikaspuri branch in the day, and the van (DL 1LK 9189) which headed towards southeast Delhi was carrying around Rs 22.5 crore. ”The place of occurrence of the crime falls under the jurisdiction of Okhla police station and a team was rushed to the spot immediately,” said DCP (Southeast) MS Randhawa.