Gaya: A special investigation team (SIT), comprising government railway police (GRP) and railway protection force (RPF) personnel, has arrested three suspected members of an interstate gang allegedly involved in the robbery of gold worth around Rs2.92 crore from an employee of a UP-based bullion trader on Oct 24.Railway deputy superintendent of police Gulshan Kumar told reporters at a news conference here on Sunday that Rohit Kumar (23) and Sachin Gangwar (25), both residents of Bareilly, and Varun Kumar (29), a construction contractor from Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh, were arrested on Saturday. Police recovered 612.74 grams of gold and four mobile phones from Varun’s residence.According to the complaint lodged by trader Sanjay Kumar Khandelwal of Shyamganj in Bareilly, his employee Sanjiv Chauhan (24) was carrying 2.006 kg of gold from Kolkata to Bareilly aboard the Chambal Express. At Bhabua Road railway station, two unidentified persons posing as senior officials intercepted Chauhan and threatened him with a purported raid on the gold owner’s house. They then allegedly seized the consignment and fled. A case was filed on Oct 14 at GRP Bhabua Road after the incident.The DSP said the SIT was conducting further investigation to identify and arrest other members of the gang and recover the remaining gold.
