Cigarettes worth Rs 4 cr looted from container truck

Cigarettes worth nearly Rs 4 crore were allegedly looted by a gang of robbers from a container truck on the Saharanpur-Ghaziabad road, at a place falling under Bhojpur police station.
The incident took place last morning. This afternoon, police detained the driver of the container, Raj Singh Gujar, a resident of Mamuri in Meerut district, on the basis of suspicion.
According to the driver, the consignment of cigarettes was loaded in the container at Saharanpur. It was to be delivered at Ghaziabad. The robbers came in a Tata Safari car and waylaid the container near Chaumuha falling under the Jait reporting chauki.

They overpowered the driver and tied him with a rope. One of the robbers then drove the container away, while the others forced the driver into their vehicle and followed the container.
The police found the driver and the empty container near Chaumuha during a vehicle check this afternoon.
"This is a very doubtful account," IG, Meerut Zone Ashutosh Pandey said, referring to the version of the driver.
"The involvement of the driver cannot be ruled out since the GPS system of the container was found broken," SP, City Mukul Dwivedi said.
Since the matter concerns the jurisdiction of Ghaziabad police as well, the driver would not be interrogated here. "A team of Ghaziabad police is expected in Mathura. We shall handover the driver to them," the SP added.