JAIPUR: A team of Ratangarh police on Monday arrested three persons for illegally possessing jewellery worth Rs 1.5 crore. Police have also seized around Rs 10.47 lakh from their possession. In the investigations so far police have not ruled out the involvement of Hawala traders in the racket.
Police stated that during night patrolling persons inside a vehicle with a Delhi registration number gave different answers to their questions. “Usually during night patrolling we stop vehicles on the highways and ask them a few general questions like where are they coming from and where are they going? However, all the persons in the vehicle gave different reply to our queries. That’s when we got suspicious and checked the vehicle,” said Balraj Singh Maan, circle inspector, Ratangarh.
He added during checking they found gold jewellery concealed in the special compartment made in the vehicle. “It had gold jewellery worth Rs 1.5 crore. All the three persons failed to give any convincing reply on the source from where they got the jewellery.”
Police also found currency notes in denominations of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500. “We have found 170 currency notes of Rs 2,000 which is Rs 3.4 lakh and 1,414 currency notes of Rs 500 which is 7.07 lakh. In total cash recovery of Rs 10.47 lakh was found from their possession,” Maan added.
The accused were identified as Sushant Maaji, Prashant Samanta and Dinesh Mandal. “All of them are natives of Medinipur, West Bengal. All the seizures was made under section 104 of CrPC as none of them were able to give any reply on the source of jewellery and cash that was found from their car.