Advocate held with Rs 80 lakh
11 Oct 2012 6:11 AM IST
A Delhi court lawyer has been arrested by Delhi police in connection with the Defence Colony cash van heist. An amount of Rs 80 lakh has been recovered from her possession.
The advocate, identified as Jyoti Batra, has been practicing law in Rohini court. She was booked for helping her client in hiding part of the looted Rs 5.5 crore, taking the number of arrests in the high-profile case to 11.
Batra is the advocate of Deepak Sharma, the first person to be arrested in the heist case, police said on Wednesday.
Sharma was arrested for his involvement in the case and Rs 1.51 crore was recovered from his house in Pushp Vihar. Based on his interrogation, police raided the house of Batra and recovered Rs 80 lakh of the looted money from her house and arrested her.
‘Later on, Rs 10 lakh was recovered from one Pawan Sharma, who is known to her [Batra], and was asked to keep the amount in safe custody as she was expecting raid from Income Tax department,’ said Chhaya Sharma, DCP, [South].
Batra is the advocate of Sharma in a murder case. With the recovery of Rs 80 lakh from Batra, the total cash recovery in the case has gone up to Rs 3.40 crore. Police have, so far, arrested 11 people, including Batra, since the incident took place on 28 September. The gang had waylaid the cash van on 28 September, pinned down a security guard and shot him after he tried to snatch their weapons. They fled the spot in the cash van, leaving behind the car in which they were following the vehicle. The guard later succumbed to the bullet wound.
It was a raid at the main accused Hari Krishan’s house in Khirki that helped the police in its trail. The key of the looted cash van was recovered in his house. Krishan and his wife Rashmi were apprehended from Banda in Uttar Pradesh on 3 October.
The first to be arrested was Sharma, brother of Hari Krishan, on 29 September, a day after the heist. Police, on 29 September, managed to identify the house that was believed to have been used by the suspects. It belonged to Krishan, who had shifted recently and purchased it in his wife’s name. Raids were conducted at the house and from there, police managed to recover the keys of the abandoned cash van. Some other documents were also seized from the spot, which indicated that the suspects had visited and stayed there.
The advocate, identified as Jyoti Batra, has been practicing law in Rohini court. She was booked for helping her client in hiding part of the looted Rs 5.5 crore, taking the number of arrests in the high-profile case to 11.
Batra is the advocate of Deepak Sharma, the first person to be arrested in the heist case, police said on Wednesday.
Sharma was arrested for his involvement in the case and Rs 1.51 crore was recovered from his house in Pushp Vihar. Based on his interrogation, police raided the house of Batra and recovered Rs 80 lakh of the looted money from her house and arrested her.
‘Later on, Rs 10 lakh was recovered from one Pawan Sharma, who is known to her [Batra], and was asked to keep the amount in safe custody as she was expecting raid from Income Tax department,’ said Chhaya Sharma, DCP, [South].
Batra is the advocate of Sharma in a murder case. With the recovery of Rs 80 lakh from Batra, the total cash recovery in the case has gone up to Rs 3.40 crore. Police have, so far, arrested 11 people, including Batra, since the incident took place on 28 September. The gang had waylaid the cash van on 28 September, pinned down a security guard and shot him after he tried to snatch their weapons. They fled the spot in the cash van, leaving behind the car in which they were following the vehicle. The guard later succumbed to the bullet wound.
It was a raid at the main accused Hari Krishan’s house in Khirki that helped the police in its trail. The key of the looted cash van was recovered in his house. Krishan and his wife Rashmi were apprehended from Banda in Uttar Pradesh on 3 October.
The first to be arrested was Sharma, brother of Hari Krishan, on 29 September, a day after the heist. Police, on 29 September, managed to identify the house that was believed to have been used by the suspects. It belonged to Krishan, who had shifted recently and purchased it in his wife’s name. Raids were conducted at the house and from there, police managed to recover the keys of the abandoned cash van. Some other documents were also seized from the spot, which indicated that the suspects had visited and stayed there.
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