Ludhiana, Jan. 14 -- A security guard with criminal background and three others were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly robbing a driver of his employer (a Jagraon-based money changer) of 30,000 Canadian dollars (around Rs.20 lakh), police said. The robbery had taken place near the Verka Milk Plant on January 5 when the accused posing as CIA staff officials intercepted the driver on the pretext of checking and escaped with a bag containing dollars.

Acting on the complaint filed by money changer Nitin Goyal, the police had registered a case against five persons. Four of them - Sarabjit Singh, 48, of Talwandi Rai village in Ludhiana, Harjeet Singh, 51, of Amritsar, Sakattar Singh, 48, of Amritsar and Stephen Masih, 34, of Gurdaspur - have b...