New Delhi: A lawyer to one of the accused in the Defence Colony cash van heist was arrested for allegedly 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. Jyoti 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 alleged 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 70 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," DCP, South District, Chhaya Sharma said.
Batra is the advocate of Sharma in a murder case and became friendly with him, the officer said. 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 September 28....
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New Delhi: Half-chopped body of a man, with the head and the torso missing, was found packed inside a synthetic cement bag in the capital's upscale Defence Colony on Friday, police said. The unidentified body was found in front of a house in C block in the south Delhi colony. According to the police, the deceased was wearing a pair of black trousers when the body was unpacked. A passerby...
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