Mumbai: A 20-year-old man who was allegedly involved in a daylight robber in Uttar Pradesh was arrested from a slum in MIDC, Andheri (east), early Saturday. The arrested man, Chandan Kamlesh Paswan who hails from Jharkhand, had been staying in a rented room which he had managed to procure through an acquaintance, had been camping in the city for over a month, said the Mumbai police.
In Mumbai, Paswan had been doing odd jobs in Mumbai since he reached here.He was paying a monthly rent of Rs 3,000 for the small accommodation in the slum colony, the police said.
Deputy commissioner of police Dutta Nalawade said they had received information about currently living in the city and wanted in connection with some crime in Uttar Pradesh.
Paswan has been handed over to the Uttar Pradesh police, said officials of Mumbai police.
On September 12, four armed robbers on two motorbikes had opened fire on a cash delivery van and fired at employees in Mirzapur district before escaping with a metal box and a bag containing cash. The amount that was taken away was estimated to be around Rs 39 lakh. A security guard who was on duty withe cash devliery personnel had been in the firing incident.
Paswan was one of the shooters in the robbery and murder case, the Mumbai police have said. “Paswan, who has studied up to class XII, had been paid his share of the booty,” said the police.
According to reports soon after the robbery and murder, footage collected from CCTV cameras around the crime spot in Beltar market locality had shown that the cash van guard, Jai Singh, was beside the cash-containing vault kept in the can when the four men, all wearing helmets, reached there. One of them fired at the guard who slumped to the ground and later died due to the injuries that he had sustained. Two cashiers who were also on duty rushed to the guard’s aid when the robbers also fired at them, snatched the cash kept in a box and in a bag escaped. A passer-by had tried to intercept them but the robbers robbers fired at him and fled. Ten police teams had been formed to arrest robbers.
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