Ludhiana robbery: 10 kg of gold recovered from one of accused

The Punjab Police here on Wednesday claimed to have recovered from an accused a portion of the 30-kg gold robbed at gunpoint from a branch of a financial services company in Punjab's Ludhiana last month. Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, IG, Organised Crime Control Unit of the Punjab Police, said 10 kg of gold was recovered from a hideout of gangster Amritpal Singh in Mohali. Amritpal was nabbed by an OCCU team on Tuesday, he said, adding that a pistol and two rifles were recovered from him. Amritpal is the brother of notorious gangster Jaipal Bhullar and was one of the six people who were involved the case.

The accused had targeted a branch of India Infoline Finance Limited (IIFL) on Gill Road in Ludhiana last month, robbing the gold worth Rs 13 crore at gunpoint. Police have so far arrested four people in the case. The remaining gold and other two accused, Jaipal and Gursewak Singh, will be arrested very soon, said the IG.

The police on March 12 had nabbed gangster Gagan Judge from Chandigarh for his involvement in the robbery. The police had recovered around Rs 31 lakh, a pistol, two magazines and 50 live cartridges from Judge. Following questioning, two more accused, Pardeep Singh of Gardiwala village in Hoshiarpur; and Harpreet Singh, a resident of Peer Mohammad village in Ferozepur, have also been arrested. 

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