06-07-2025
Employee arrested for staging fake robbery, cash recovered from his friends
Kolhapur: An employee of a trader from Sangola was arrested for orchestrating a fake robbery and stealing Rs 12.8 lakh with the assistance of three friends, two of whom have been arrested.
The trader entrusted the amount to his employee, 32-year-old Pramod Shinde, to purchase jamun from the Andhra Pradesh market. On the night of June 2, while en route to AP, the pickup goods van was stopped along the roadside after Shinde reported vomiting. As he exited the vehicle, a car containing three men arrived, assaulted Shinde, and used chilli spray on the van's driver.
The assailants seized the bag containing the cash.
Abhijeet Wadkar (25), the driver of the van, filed a complaint at the Umadi police station.
"We immediately started suspecting the two. We learnt that Shinde was in touch with the three who came to rob them. Shinde made the whole plan and assured a share of the money to the three accomplices. We immediately arrested two of them and recovered all the cash stolen by them," said Sandip Kamble, the assistant inspector of Umadi police station.
The men arrested are Siddheshwar Dange (27) and Toufik Maneri (35), both also from Sangola in Solapur district. The third suspect remains at large.
