Overview
- Jai Pratap Singh, a personal security officer employed for about a decade, was arrested by the Sector 43 crime branch after returning to Gurugram.
- Police say he was entrusted on December 10 to deliver ₹50 lakh from the Discovery Wine Shop in Sector 57 to a contact in Delhi but switched off his phone and did not complete the delivery.
- Officers recovered ₹49.5 lakh and a Maruti S-Presso from an MCD parking lot near Batra Hospital in Delhi, where the cash was hidden in the boot.
- During questioning, Singh said he destroyed his mobile phone, traveled to Haridwar and Rishikesh, spent about ₹50,000, and claimed he intended to fund a fruit orchard in Himachal Pradesh.
- He has been produced in court and sent to judicial custody, with police verifying his statements and probing whether anyone else was involved.