MUMBAI: Investigators probing the theft of Rs 1.3-crore diamonds from a jewellery company manager at Dindoshi on Sunday, suspect insider involvement in the crime. Five men posed as income-tax officials and accosted Deepak Lalwani. They asked him to accompany them in their Maruti Zen for questioning. Later, they snatched the diamond packets that he was carrying and offloaded him at Kandivli East at gunpoint.
"There's a strong possibility that an insider had tipped off the robbers," a senior police official said. "Lalwani always travels with a gunman in his car. But since it was a Sunday, the gunman had taken a day off."
Lalwani is in charge of collecting raw diamonds from angadias (jewellery courier boys) and ferrying them to the company's office at Borivli for polishing. "The robbers were aware of the exact time when Lalwani would leave from Dindoshi with the diamonds. They even knew who was Lalwani's immediate superior at work," the official said.
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