India, July 13 -- Delhi Police has arrested a 42-year-old driver for allegedly staging a fake robbery at gunpoint to misappropriate Rs 5 lakh entrusted to him by his employer, an official said on Sunday.

Police said that they cracked the case within four hours of receiving the complaint and recovered the entire cash amount concealed beneath the bonnet of the car.

The accused, identified as Gurnaam Singh alias Happy, a resident of Tilak Nagar, was working as a driver and helper at a spare-parts workshop in Kashmere Gate for the past 10 years.

"During interrogation, he told police that he had been facing financial difficulties and hatched the plan to keep the money by fabricating a robbery story," a senior police officer said.

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