By IANS,
New Delhi : Another accused in the over Rs.10 crore ($2.2 million) jewellery heist that rocked Chandigarh last week was arrested from south Delhi, police said Friday.
Nadeem, 23 hailing from Muradnagar town in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district, was arrested from Rangpuri area. He was one of the 12 men who dressed in police uniforms looted jewellery worth over Rs.10 crore from a Tanishq showroom in Manimajra town last Wednesday.
Nadeem is the tenth accused to be arrested in the case. Earlier, police from both the states working together, had arrested nine others from Ghaziabad, Chandigarh and Delhi.
“His interrogation revealed that the kingpin of the gang Paras Soni, a resident of Delhi had hatched the plan along with the other accused around two months back,” said a police official.
Nadeem, a school dropout was earlier arrested in a murder case in his hometown in 2006 and was jailed for 13 months.