Kolkata, Aug 5 (IANS) A trolley full of cash was recovered from an abandoned brick kiln in Durgapur of West Bengal’s West Burdwan district, the police said on Wednesday.
The trolley contained more than 48 lakh rupees in cash.
According to the police, the money was recovered during an investigation into a theft.
On Tuesday night, the police raided the brick kiln in Chandradanga under Faridpur Police Station area of Durgapur.
The money was recovered during that raid.
According to the police, on August 1, the house of Manoranjan Pal, a resident of Gaurbazar village in Bankura district, was robbed. He owns a rice mill.
Manoranjan told the police that his brother-in-law had allowed him to keep a trolley full of money.
The thieves took the trolley away.
Manoranjan alleged that some gold ornaments were also stolen along with the trolley.
Following the complaint, the police started searching various places in the district to investigate the incident.
On receiving information from a secret source, the police went to the brick kiln on Tuesday night and recovered the trolley full of money. However, it is still unclear whether the money is linked to the theft at Manoranjan’s house.
The police are also investigating who left the trolley at the brick kiln and when.
A further investigation into the matter has started.
“Investigation is on to determine whether the money kept in that abandoned brick kiln was stolen from the house of the complainant or it came from any other source,” a senior officer of Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate said.
In April this year, more than Rs 50 lakh was recovered in a Naka search in Kolkata following which money has been recovered in various parts of the state in the last few days.
Recently, a search was conducted at the house of a relative of Tulu Mandal, a stone merchant in Birbhum, and gold and cash worth Rs 50 crore were recovered.
Few days ago, the incident of recovery of huge amount of money in Malda district also came to light during which several lakhs of rupees were recovered in Durgapur.
–IANS
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