India: Police Locate Lorry Thanks To GPS

Police turned to a GPS tracking device in order to find a missing lorry, finding it in the most unusual of places: buried underneath an agricultural field.

The lorry went missing on August 8th, loaded up with 425 bags of cement meant to be delivered to Siliguri. It departed the city of Kalyani, and after failing to get in touch with the driver or his helper, the lorry owner filed a report with the Kalyani police two days later.

Lucky for the owner, the lorry was equipped with a GPS tracking device, located in the engine. Police were able to determine its GPS location coordinates, and headed to an area near Jadupur in old Malda. Once arriving in Malda, they joined forces with the Malda police to track it with the GPS tracking device.

However, it wasn’t accurate enough. They’d need more. A tip came in and police raided a warehouse in Jadupur, finding the cement bags and the tires off of the lorry. But where was the truck itself?

Police were baffled, until local residents gave them the tip that broke the case: they said they could see parts of the lorry in a agricultural field nearby, maybe they should check it out. So they did, and officer Biswajit Ghosh led the charge to start digging.

They turned to heavy equipment to dig the lorry out from beneath the earth, and when they finished they discovered the lorry had been broken down into pieces which had then been buried underground to evade police. The crooks even went so far as to sow seeds in the earth exactly where the lorry was buried. Three suspects were arrested in connection with the case.

SP Kalyan Mukherjee said, “It is a unique case of hijacking a lorry and then resolving the case using GPS technology.”

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India: Police Locate Lorry Thanks To GPS