NOIDA: Police on Saturday said they have got concrete evidence to link father-son duo Rammani and Kislay Panday with the recovered cash and gold allegedly stolen from a flat in Greater Noida’s Silver City last year.
Cops claimed to have arrested Sunny, the eighth accused in the case who carried a reward of Rs 10,000 on his head, and recovered documents of two properties in the Megalopolis project in Greater Noida’s Ansal Plaza belonging to Kislay and his mother Sanju.
The properties are worth Rs 88 lakh each, officials said.
From Sunny’s possession, police are said to have recovered two gold biscuits worth Rs 1 crore, a bowl of gold, one gold ornament for nose and one gold spoon, and seized a car and the documents of two properties that he purchased in Dankaur and Ajayabpur with the money he got for his participation in the theft.
Additional DCP (Noida) Ranvijay Singh said that in total, Sunny got Rs 40 lakh and two kg of gold that was recovered during the theft.
“He was also entrusted with a red bag that contained several documents belonging to the Pandeys, including the papers of two properties bought by Kislay and Sanju in Megalopolis.” Along with the documents, the bag contained several identity cards in which Rammani and Kislay have been shown as “mediapersons” working with a “local magazine” “Crime Reporter” and another firm called “Voice of Washington”.
Further, several debit cards belonging to Kislay have also been recovered from the bag.
Cops say the duo had formed a firm through which they were conducting sting operations to “blackmail government officials”.
“It has come to fore that the father-son duo conducted at least two sting operations and blackmailed doctors of a primary health centre in Jaunpur, along with some PCS officers,” Singh said.
The Noida police also said that they are now exploring legal options against the father-son duo.
“Since evidence has been recovered that proves that the wealth belongs to them, we are exploring legal actions against them,” the additional DCP said.
Meanwhile, when contacted, Kislay claimed that the red bag and the documents that the police claimed to have recovered, were seized by them during searches at his villas.
“For some of the items, police have given us a receipt, for others they have not,” he said.