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Six members of gang were arrested
SURAT: Cracking the April 2 loot and murder of a billionaire farmer in Dumas, the city crime branch arrested six members of a Mumbai-based gang near Bhatia toll plaza on Wednesday.
Investigation revealed that the gang wanted to carry out a loot of Rs 160 crore from a bungalow in Badlapur city of Thane district and they needed cash to buy weapons and equipment for this crime.
During the early hours on April 2, five persons entered the victim Bhupendra Patel’s house in Kadi Faliya locality of Dumas, tied him up and searched for cash. However, they found only Rs four lakh. They then thrashed Patel to extract information about more cash during which he died due to strangling.
Surat: Greed for getting richer drove 40-year-old Chetna Patel, a millionaire herself, to plot the loot and murder of her 60-year-old neighbour Bhupendra Patel.
Police said that Chetna’s husband Lalit owns land worth nearly Rs three crore while her father was a government officer who worked in the city survey department. She tipped off her sister Renuka who lives in Mumbai few months ago that Rs 40 crore was kept in a house in Dumas. Renuka knew one of the gang members.
However, the loot plan could not be executed then. Recently, Chetna again shared the information with Renuka that the deceased Bhupendra Patel had earned Rs three crore cash in a land deal and had kept the money in his house.