Sonepat (Haryana): Three days after the daring bank robbery in Gohana town in Sonepat, police claimed to have cracked the case with the arrest of three persons and recovery of jewellery weighing over 24 kg from them. Meanwhile, the owner of the abandoned house, through which a 125-feet-long tunnel was dug to the Punjab National Bank locker room in Gohana, allegedly committed suicide after consuming some poisonous substance soon after he was booked, police said.
“We have arrested three persons. They all belong to Katwal village in Sonepat district. We have recovered nearly 24 kg jewellery and over 60,000 cash from them,” Rohtak Range IG, A K Rao said. Sonepat SP Arun Nehra said one of the accused Surender, worked as a laboratory technician in Sonepat. Nehra said based on statement of the accused, the owner of the abandoned house was also been booked, but he allegedly committed suicide. “The owner of the house, Mahipal, actively supported and connived with the main accused. However, Mahipal consumed some poisonous substance and committed suicide.
Cash and jewellery, believed to be worth millions, were stolen from the bank’s Gohana branch last week. The robbers had dug a 125-feet-long and 2.5-feet-wide tunnel to the bank from Mahipal’s house, lying unoccupied for more than four years, to carry out the heist. They randomly targeted the bank lockers and managed to break 77 of a total 350 lockers at the bank which is located in a residential-cum-commercial area of the town.
