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The Central Bureau of Investigation has been able to solve
a sensational highway robbery-cum-murder case within five
months of taking up the investigation. The investigative agency
arrested 3 accused persons, Gurcharan Sharma @ Radhey, Kapil
Dev @ Sunil and Vijay, all residents of Guragon District in
Haryana on Monday for hijacking a truck and murdering its
driver Naresh Kumar and Cleaner Azad Singh and looting of
electronic items like DVD spare parts, speakers, remotes worth
about Rs. 15 lakhs on 11.9.02. The accused were produced before
the CBI Special Magistrate at Ambala yesterday who remanded
the trio to 7 days CBI custody remand.
Truck No. HR - 46 A 8092 belonging to Shri Jai Prakash of
Delhi had left Bangalore on 6.9.02, with goods for Hero Honda
Company and DVD parts, speakers, remotes worth Rs. 15 lakh
for Shiv Enterprises, Delhi. The truck reached Sidhrawli on
11.09.02 and after instructions from Shri Jai Prakash, the
driver delivered one consignment of goods to Hero Honda Godown
at Dharuhera, Haryana. The truck then drew petrol from a petrol
pump at Bilaspur chowk and then took a turn to Pataudi road.
Thereafter the truck was found abandoned in empty condition
near Ahir College in Rewari on 15.09.02 and there was no sign
of driver Naresh Kumar and cleaner Azad Singh. A case was
registered on 17.09.2002 at PS City Rewari u/s 407 IPC on
the complaint of Shri Anoop Khurana, Manager of Vijay Cargo
Movers Ltd. that the driver and the cleaner of the truck had
misappropriated the elctronic goods.
On the other hand, since her husband did not return home,
Smt. Rajesh Rani, wife of driver Naresh Kumar of Rohtak filed
a Criminal Miscellaneous Petition in 2004 in the Punjab and
Haryana High Court. The Court directed CBI to investigate
the case and accordingly CBI registered the case on 20.1.05.
While tracing possible dealers in such stolen items in Delhi,
the CBI finally picked up Gurcharan Sharma @ Radhey and questioned
him. Though Radhey went on giving vague informations, finally
investigation disclosed the involvement of Radhey and on the
information given by him that he received the items from Sunil
and Vijay, Vijay was picked up from Gurgaon and Sunil who
was working as a driver in Tonk in Rajasthan was also picked
up and both were questioned. During sustained interrogation,
they dislclosed that they alongwith Radhey and two other accused
Mahinder Singh of Gurgaon and Udaiveer Yadav of Mainpuri,
UP hatched a criminal conspiracy to loot trucks plying at
night on the route with costly goods and make money. In furtherance
of the said criminal conspiracy they hired a godown at Khadipur
Industrial Area, Gurgaon for stocking the looted items before
they were sold. Simultaneously, they decided to run a dhaba
on Pataudi road which ran well for about two months. On 11.9.02,
truck No. HR - 46 A 8092 stopped at the dhaba at about 7.00
p.m. and driver Naresh Kumar and Cleaner Azad Singh had dinner
there. After verifying from the driver about the goods in
the truck accused Sunil gave Campose powder to accused Vijay
who was preparing rotis to mix up with the rotis and give
to the driver and cleaner. When the driver and the cleaner
finished their food Vijay, Sunil and Mahinder Singh asked
for a lift upto Gurgaon which was agreed to by the driver.
Accordingly, they got into the truck whereas Udaiveer Yadav
remained in the dhaba and Radhey followed the truck on his
motor cycle. After they moved about 10 Kms. the driver and
the cleaner felt drowsy and Sunil drove the truck. They stopped
the truck after a driving for about ½ an hour to make
sure that the driver and cleaner went into deep sleep and
may not be able to resist. However, the cleaner suddenly started
mumbling and tried to get up when Mahinder Singh and Vijay
stabbed him. At that time driver Naresh Kumar also tried to
wake up and he was also stabbed to death by Mahinder Singh
and Vijay. Thereafter, they drove the truck to Sector 10 near
Khadipur where they threw the dead bodies of the driver and
cleaner into the gutter/nallah/drainage and drove the truck
away to the godown they had hired earlier. The goods were
disposed of by Radhey and all the accused shared the money.
A few days later, they closed the dhaba. The dead bodies remained
unidentifed and or untraced in the nallah.
The Gang had planned the crime meticulously leaving no clue
about the murder and it was out of sustained investigative
skills that the CBI was able to gather clues about the accused
behind the highway robbery and gruesome murder. Efforts are
on to trace the two absconding accused.
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