MEERUT, Dec. 27 -- Pilkhuwa police in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district worked out the Rs.85-lakh highway robbery committed near Saraswati Medical College on the Hapur-Ghaziabad highway on December 15 by arresting six accused and recovering Rs.62 lakh looted cash from them on Friday night. The police also seized a car and a motorcycle used in the crime, a country-made pistol, two live cartridges and five mobile phones.

In a daylight robbery, bike-borne criminals had looted the money at gunpoint from the accountant of a ghee and edible oil trader. Confirming the arrests, superintendent of police, Hapur, Kunwar Gyananjay Singh the entire crime was captured on CCTV cameras installed in the area.

He said the footage showed the bike-borne assai...