Four held for stealing peppermint bags worth Rs 14 lakh from truck

Bareilly | Thursday | 4th October, 2018

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“As soon as the truck slowed down, seven people climbed up on the truck and dropped 12 peppermint bags of 50 kg each. They will cut tarpaulin to fetch peppermint bags and then drop the bags on the ground, which will be collected by their accomplices following the truck on car.”SP said on September 27, Virendra Jain, a peppermint businessman, got a consignment of 7,650 peppermint bags worth Rs 1.5 crore loaded on a truck for Jaipur. When the truck arrived near Kamalpur village, the driver applied breaks to negotiate with a big pothole. “As soon as the truck driver slows down to negotiate with speed breakers and potholes, two or more accused will climb up on the truck from the rear side. Their accomplices loaded those bags in the car they had been chasing the truck..