Kolkata: The East Midnapore police have cracked a case in just six hours and arrested three employees of a company for stealing money that was collected after delivering products through "cash on delivery".
Police said they received a complaint on July 30 that a dacoity took place at their office in Panskura and Rs 46 lakh was looted. The company delivers goods that are booked through different online shopping sites.
Police have initiated a probe and interrogated the employees of the company. During the interrogation, they had initially told the police that four people had come on two motorbikes and looted the money at gun point. They couldn't identify them as their faces were covered with clothes.
Police had interrogated one Biswajit Murmu, an employee and found discrepancies in his statement.
They continued questioning him. As it continued, he broke down before the police and confessed that he and two more of his colleagues were behind the crime. The two others are Ujjal Dutta and Sandip Sarkar. A senior police officer said they had chalked out a plan and stole the money that was collected during delivery of goods through "cash on delivery". Usually, the money collected needs to be
deposited in a bank.
But the three youths stole the same instead of depositing it and reported that there was a dacoity. It was learnt that Rs 46 lakh was collected and the money could not be deposited as there were weekends in between. The entire amount has been recovered.
V Solomon Nesakumar, Superintendent of Police of East Midnapore district, said: "The case was cracked within 6 hours and the all three of them were arrested."