Rs 5cr heist: Robbers planned UK escape

NEW DELHI: Hari Kishan Sharma, the prime accused in the Defence Colony heist, had planned to flee to London after the robbery. His brother Deepak Sharma, who has been arrested in the case, also had similar plans. The duo’s sister lives in London and had helped them financially earlier, said a police officer.
The police now have reasons to believe that Hari Kishan may try to flee the country, which is why a lookout circular (LOC) has been issued against him on Monday.This means that he won’t be able to board a flight from any of the airports in the country as the immigration staff and the airport security will have his photographs and other details.
However, if Hari Kishan has already left the country then it’s unlikely that he will come in the police net. Sources said he may have fled to Nepal. Similar modus operandi was followed in
the Connaught Place robbery of 2003 wherein two crores had been robbed. While a few of them were arrested, the prime accused had fled to Nepal.
Hari Kishanwas last traced to East Delhi’s Mandawali area after which his phone went out of reach. A source said that there were two possibilities. One that he went towards NH-24 crossing Ghaziabad from Mandawali, from where he would have headed to Gorakhpur and tried to cross over to Nepal. Secondly, he may try to dodge the police and go in the opposite direction.
Other accomplices, however, may be arrested soon, police sources said.
A police officer, on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Hari Kishan’s sister had called up a south Delhi inspector to find out what her brothers had done and why they were being framed again.
Teams of special cell, crime branch and local police are working in tandem on the case and raiding several places in the adjoining states. A source said that some teams are in the process of contacting Billu Solanki, who is presently lodged in Tihar, to get clues about the gang’s possible hideouts. Hari Kishan Sharma had trained under him.
Solanki is likely to be asked about Hari Kishan’s new contacts and a team may head to Nepal soon.
Solanki was lodged in Tihar under the National Security Act in 2003. Harkishan met him in 2005 in the RK Puram murder case of a transporter. Harkishan, son of an MCD inspector, was known as Pehelwan in his crime circle due to his build.