Cops recover stolen cash dumped on roadside in Chitradurga

Chitradurga: Challakere taluk police on Thursday recovered stolen money to the tune of Rs 16 lakh dumped near bushes along a road near Buklarlahalli gate, adjoining to NH 150 (A).
The money belonged to Dilip Build Com (DBAL), a construction firm tasked with road widening works near the Buklarlahalli gate. The company had erected sheds for thousands of workers engaged by the company for the works.
The company officials had kept Rs 36,62,045 cash in their administrative office room adjacent to the construction company sheds, to pay the salaries of workers.But to their surprise, the cash was stolen from their office room in the intervening night of October 2 and October 3. In this connection, a theft case was lodged at Talaku police station on October 4, police said.
Immediately, a special team led by inspector Nalavagalu Manjunath along with PSI Satish Naik was formed to bust the theft case.
Besides combing operations, dogs squad and finger print experts were pressed into action. During the operation, the police detected bundles of currency notes from a bush near the company sheds, said SP G Radhika.
“We think the culprits may have dumped the money after the search team intensified their combing operation fearing they would be caught in red hand if the cash is found in their sheds,” the SP said
Further, the team has tightened the movement of the workers outside their sheds without permission from the police, the SP added.
The real culprits will be arrested soon after an intensified frisking and combing operation, the SP added.