Three nabbed for looting grain trader of Rs 5 lakh

Rajkot: Police in Rajkot nabbed three persons for attacking a food grain trader and looting him of Rs 5 lakh on Jamnagar bypass road on Tuesday. Police has arrested the accused on the basis of CCTV footage installed on the city roads.

The accused — Imran Baloch, Alpesh Parmar and Imran Dasadia — were caught from Bedipara. According to police, Rs 4.92 lakh along with three motorcycles were recovered from the accused.

The incident had taken place when Dilip Pipaliya (40), who owns a food grain trading firm in new marketing yard, was going towards his shop after withdrawing cash from a private bank near the police commissioner's office on Tuesday.

According to police, the CCTV footage obtained from the bank showed that Pipaliya, riding a scooter, was being followed by two men on another scooter from the moment he exited the bank. After nearly 10km, when Pipaliya reached a stretch where he was alone on the road, the two accused intercepted his vehicle and started arguing with him.

One of them accused Pipaliya of ramming into his vehicle a couple of days back while the other thrashed him before fleeing with Pipaliya's scooter with cash in the boot space. Later, the scooter was found abandoned about 4km away near Bhagwatipura with the cash missing.