A gang of highway robbers decamped with two trailers loaded with copper plates worth Rs 2.27 crore, dispatched from Sterlite factory and bound for JNPT port near Mumbai, at Nalla-Sopara in the district last night.
Inspector Mukund Mahajan of the Nalla-Sopara police station said the trailers contained total of 45 tonnes of
copper plates, and had been sent from Silvassa factory.
When the trailers were passing through the forested area near Nalla Sopara along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, a group of six men intercepted them, and drove them off after assaulting the drivers.
The incident took place sometime before 10 pm, according to the complaint by Rajan Nadar, owner of the transport
company.
The two drivers, identified as Umesh Bind and Rakesh Yadav, were left on the roadside. Police said that one of them contacted the owner to inform about the incident; but now both the drivers were untraceable.
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