A district court has sentenced nine people to different jail terms for looting about Rs 2 crore after waylaying an armoured cash delivery van nearly nine years ago. The looted money belonged to the ICICI Bank and the convicts included the armoured vehicles driver and his associates. Additional Sessions Judge S C Rajan sentenced four of the accused Jatinder,Dharamvir,Jaswant and Jagbir Singh to seven years rigorous imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 32,000 on each. Five others convicted in the case Sanjay Kumar,Angrez,Vijender,Dalbir Singh and Subdri Devi were given a one-year jail term for keeping the cash and helping the main culprits in destroying evidence. The court,however,acquitted six others for lack of evidence. One of the accused also died during the trial. On the morning of July 23,2001,an armoured delivery van of Brinks Arya Private Ltd,a Delhi-based company that ferries cash for various private and PSU banks,reached the Reserve Bank of India to collect Rs 2.01 crore in cash. The manager of ICICI Bank of Connaught Place branch had given a cheque to a person named Madanpal,who became the complainant in the case,to collect the cash from the RBI. Dharamvir was driving the van,while Jaswant Singh,was on the vehicle as a security personnel. The court noted that the two had forcibly taken the vehicle towards Gurgaon. The two were then joined by other accused who,after locking the other staff of the company,looted the cash and fled in a private vehicle. Madanpal managed to come out of the vehicle after a few hours and informed the police who later arrested 16 people in the case.
