Malda (West Bengal): Four persons, including a junior police officer and a civic volunteer, were arrested in connection with the snatching of one-and-half-kg gold valued at Rs 50 lakh, the police said on Tuesday.
All the four were produced before a local court on Tuesday and remanded to police custody for six days.
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The snatching had reportedly taken place on May 2019 when the yellow metal was allegedly being taken to Kolkata from Malda, the police said.
A verbal complaint was lodged with the Malda police after the incident but the written one was submitted six months later on November last year.
Malda Superintendent of Police (SP) Alok Rajoria said that the time gap between the verbal complaint and lodging of the written one had created suspicion and led to the arrest of the assistant sub-inspector of police, the civic volunteer and two others.
The police said the investigations have revealed that the incident was pre-planned by a Kolkata-based businessman, who was himself present during the alleged snatching and had even lodged the complaint.
The businessman was among those arrested, the police added.
(PTI)
