Kolkata: Three youths have been arrested by Bidhannagar North Police Station for committing robbery at a cafe Coffee Day (CCD) outlet in Salt Lake. According to police, one of the accused was an employee of the same outlet. As his one-and-a-half month salary was due, he planned the robbery to get his due money.
During investigation, the sleuths had found CCTV footages where three suspected persons were seen. When the CCD employees were shown the footage, they identified one Sankar Das, who was an employee there a few months ago. Later, police obtained Das' mobile number and started the tracking process. As his mobile phone was switched off, the sleuths could not track his tower location. On Saturday night, Das' tower location popped up on the screen as soon he switched on his mobile phone.
The location of his phone was in Gaighata. Without wasting time, a team comprising members from the Detective Department (DD) and Bidhannagar North Police Station went to Dhakuria in Gaighata and detained Das. Later, Das told police his two friends identified as Biltu Sarkar and Surajit Roy had helped him to commit the crime. The other two youths were also detained from Gaighata area. During interrogation, they admitted to their crime and were arrested on Sunday morning.
According to the sources, Das admitted to have come on foot and waited for the shop to open. As Das was an employee, he knew that only one person would be there in the first few hours. As per the plan as soon as the shop opened, Das sent Sarkar and Roy inside to overpower Suvankar Ghosh, the employee who opened the café on that day.
Das entered the shop after Ghosh was tied up and looted the cash present. All of them fled on foot. The sleuths have recovered the bags, wearing appeals and mobile phones of the trio.
On October 29 morning around 10:30 am, the CCD outlet at AD block was robbed. The trio approximately took Rs 18,000 from the cash box and fled.