Fatasil Ambari police arrested GRP ASI, constable with Rs 22 lakh, 1.5 kg gold

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: The arrest of a GRP (Government Railway Police) assistant sub-inspector and a traffic constable with a booty of Rs 22 lakh, ten pieces of gold biscuits and other ornaments weighing 1.5 kg is set to throw fresh light on the incident of looting gold worth Rs 45 lakh from a railway passenger in Guwahati Railway Station in January this year.

Fatasil Ambari police arrested GRP ASI Shravan Kumar Jha and his brother traffic police constable Sanjay Kumar Jha from Lalganesh here on Wednesday night when they were going with the booty riding a bike (AS1AQ4330). A case (169/20 under Section 188/392) has been registered in this connection in Fatasil Ambari Police Station.

According to the police, the two siblings were taking the cash and the gold from the house of Upendra Yadav of Govinda Nagar in Fatasil Ambari. Yadav hails from Bihar. The police also said that Shravan Kumar Jha had kept the cash and the gold in the house of Yadav.

What’s significant is that GRP ASI Shravan Kumar Jha had been arrested in January this year the case of looting gold worth Rs 45 lakh from a train passenger in Guwahati Railway Station. He, however, was on bail in that case.

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