A notorious criminal, wanted for carrying out daring heists in India and Nepal, and four of his associates were detained here following an encounter with the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police, officials said on Tuesday. Avinash Chandra Tripathi carried a reward of Rs 50,000 on information leading to his arrest.
Giving details, they claimed Avinash Chandra Tripathi escaped from police custody in 2014 in Lucknow and was involved in a case of Rs 1 crore thefts in Maharashtra the same year, a Rs 60 lakh theft from a jeweler in Vadodara in Gujarat in 2015 and a two kg gold loot in Ghangadi in Nepal last year.
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Others arrested were identified as – Shamsher Singh, Santosh Kumar, Rahul Tripathi and Vishal Tripathi, they said. A pistol, a number of cartridges, two diamonds and a gold necklace and an SUV was recovered from their possession, the STF officials reported.
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