Nine persons arrested in sensational Ulhasnagar nursing home heist

 

STRAP: A former employee helped the gang, which was busted after it began spending the loot Thane: Four months after a doctor couple was looted in Ulhasnagar in a sensational heist, the Shivaji Nagar Police have arrested nine persons, including a former employee of the nursing home, in connection with the robbery

Thane: Four months after a doctor couple was looted in Ulhasnagar in a sensational heist, the Shivaji Nagar Police have arrested nine persons, including a former employee of the nursing home, in connection with the robbery.

The employee, lab technician Jyoti Salekar, was the one who provided the gang with all the details it needed to carry out the heist, from the floor plan of the nursing home to the hours that the doctors kept. Based on these details, the eight other accused hatched the plan. The police were able to recover ₹64.71 lakh from them.

The crime had taken place on July 11, when four masked men barged into Usha Nursing Home in Ambernath, locked up the nurses and patients on the ground and first floors, and broke into the house of the septuagenarian doctor couple who lived on the second floor. Dr Usha Lapsia, 71, was alone at that point, and the accused threatened her at knifepoint and fled with the entire safe containing cash and gold worth ₹1.18Cr.