3 men steal excavator from NCR, caught in Kasganj

Lucknow | Thursday | 17th January, 2019

Summary:

The trio drove for two days and covered nearly 200 km to reach Amapur. AGRA: In a bid to make some quick bucks, three men in their mid-20s stole an excavator from national capital region and drove all the way to Kasganj covering nearly 200 km to sell Rs 30 lakh worth muscle machine used mostly at construction site. This triggered a curiosity, as neither of the men was a contractor or real estate developer. After verifying the details of machine, it was established that excavator recovered from three was the same one stolen from Ghaziabad.Three were booked under IPC sections 379 and 411, and sent to jail. They used the machine for several days to earn some money and later decided to sell it off for Rs 7 lakh and initiated a hunt for possible customer.”During cross examination with Indirapuram police of Ghaziabad, we found that an FIR of stolen excavator was lodged against unknown person..