Gurcharan Singh and Dharampreet Singh in the custody of police.
Two youths have been arrested for stealing Rs 3 lakh 30 thousand by breaking into the safe of a finance company’s office in Faridkot. The unit manager and employee of the accused company were fired. They have been identified as Gurcharan Singh of Mansa and Dharampreet Singh of Fazilka.
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The incident took place on Old Cantt Road. DSP Trilochan Singh said that the manager of the company had given a complaint of cash theft, on which after investigation the police arrested both the accused and also recovered the cutter used to cut the safe from them. He told that Gurcharan Singh had lodged a complaint with the police last week that when he was coming on his bike, robbers had looted Rs 30,000 from him, which after interrogation proved to be a drama.
DSP Trilochan Singh giving information about the accused.
The DSP said that the accused used to collect the loan installments given by the company and had used a lot of the company’s money for their personal purposes. To fulfill this deficiency, he committed theft in the company’s office. The police will take the accused on remand and interrogate them and information will be gathered as to how much more money they have defrauded the company.