The Ahmedabad Crime Branch and Ahmedabad Rural Police dispatched four teams to Ghaziabad and apprehended four accused in the jewellery heist at Ahmedabad’s Bopal area on January 2.

In a brazen daylight robbery, four armed robbers stormed Kanakpura Jewellers on Gymkhana Road in South Bopal around 3.45 pm and decamped with ₹73 lakh worth of jewellery. 

Following the robbery, Ahmedabad Rural Police and Crime Branch initiated an investigation and identified the accused through CCTV footage from nearby shops.

On Sunday, the police team deployed in Ghaziabad successfully apprehended the four accused.

The preliminary investigation revealed that seven individuals were involved in the case. The police have arrested four of them, and the investigation to seize the looted gold is ongoing.

The thieves had threatened the shop owners, Manoj Makwana and Bharat Lodhiya, at gunpoint, confined them in their office, and looted the shop. The thieves took all the jewellery that was on display.

According to police sources, the thieves failed to notice a bag full of gold worth ₹4.80 crore in a drawer. They only looted the gold put on display.

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