PUNE: The Swargate police have arrested five men from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Nanded in Maharashtra on the charge of robbing Rs 25.5 lakh from a Nanded jeweller’s employee by posing as anti-corruption bureau officials on Shankarseth Road on March 7.
The five men, arrested over a span of the past eight days, had abducted the employee and kept him in confinement at Rajgurunagar before releasing him. The employee had travelled to Pune from Nanded in a luxury bus with the cash in a backpack and alighted at Shankarseth Road near Swargate, when four men posing as ACB officials abducted him in an SUV.
