Courier firm driver, aide held for loots

Rajkot: A 20-year-old tempo driver of a courier company in Ahmedabad’s Sarkhej area was arrested for plotting two loots of parcels containing electronic items being transported to Rajkot last month.
Surendranagar local crime branch (LCB) sleuths arrested the driver Kiran Parmar and his three friends - Shivam alias Shivo Patel (24), Dupesh Jadav (22) and Rahul Parmar (20) for the crimes.
Kiran had lodged a complaint with Sayla police that three persons in an SUV had intercepted his tempo on June 30 night and looted around eight parcels containing LED TVs, mobiles, hard disk and other goods.
A similar incident had happened near Bagodara near Ahmedabad on June 22 when a tempo of the same company - GSM Courier - transporting nine boxes containing sim cards of Jio were looted. LCB teams scanned CCTV footage of the entire highway from Sarkhej to Doliya between Sayla and Chotila and found that an SUV was constantly following the tempo right from its origin. This made them suspicious that an insider was involved in both the loots.
“We suspected Kiran’s involvement and called him for questioning. He broke down and confessed to plotting the loot. In Bagodara case, he had tipped off his three friends but was not driving the tempo,” said Deepak Dhol, inspector, Surendranagar LCB.
All were picked up from their houses in Sarkhej area and arrested. Dupesh works as a store keeper in a private company in Sarkhej while Shivam and Rahul are jobless.
In all, police recovered goods worth Rs 4.34 lakh that included 42 mobiles of various companies, four Apple watches, five hard disks, four LED TVs, an ipad and Rs 53,000 cash from their houses.