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The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested one more
accused Mahender Singh, in the highway robbery and double
murder case of Gurgaon (Haryana) during September 2002 Mahender
Singh along with four others had hatched a criminal conspiracy
to loot trucks passing through the highway, near Gurgaon in
the nights, murder the driver & cleaner of the truck and
dispose of the looted goods. In furtherance of the said criminal
conspiracy, Mahender Singh and four others looted truck No.
HR-46 A-8092 on 11.9.2002 which was carrying electronic items
like DVD parts, speakers, remotes worth about Rs. 15 lakh
from Bangalore to Delhi on Pataudi Road, Gurgaon in the night,
killed the driver Naresh Kumar and cleaner Azad Singh threw
their dead bodies in the gutter and disposed of the electronic
items.
The CBI had earlier arrested Sunil, Vijay and Gurcharan
Sharma @ Radhey in this sensational highway robbery-cum-murder
case on 20.6.2005. On their disclosures, CBI had recovered
the knife used to stab and kill the driver and the cleaner
and also the tawa being used by the driver and the cleaner
in the truck for preparing rotis during the long journeys
from a drainage near Rewari. Accused Mahender Singh has been
remanded to CBI custody till 18.7.2005 by the CBI Special
Magistrate at Ambala. This case was entrusted to CBI by the
High Court of Punjab and Haryana and CBI took up investigation
in January this year. It is on account of the hard work and
intelligence collected by the CBI that the gang behind the
highway robbery and murder could be tracked and arrested within
a period of five months.
One more accused in this case is absconding.
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