Overview
- Police report five arrests to date, including two detained in Jamshedpur in a cross-state operation.
- The 60-year-old shop owner, Sankar Jana, was found dead inside his Baranagar store after a daylight raid.
- The Jamshedpur pair are accused of beating Jana with iron rods and are being brought to Kolkata on transit remand for production in Barrackpore court.
- Alleged purchaser Panchu Samanta has been remanded to three days of police custody after being produced in Barrackpore court.
- Investigators allege inmates Sanjoy Maity and Rakesh Das plotted the heist and arranged recruits from Bihar and Jharkhand, while a third attacker is still at large and most of the roughly 15 kg of gold remains unrecovered.