Karnal, Feb. 6 -- A few hours after around two men stole a jewellery bag worth around Rs.2 crore from a bus, the Kaithal police on Monday recovered the car, in which the accused fled, and most of the jewellery.

The accused stole the jewellery after the bus halted at a dhaba for dinner on NH-44 in Karnal. The incident happened during the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, when two employees of a logistics company were travelling in a Chandigarh-bound Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus that had halted near Samana Bahu village at around 1 am.

Complainant Prem Kumar, in his complaint to the police, said, he hails from Rajasthan and works with a courier company in Chandigarh. He and his colleague, Dharmendra boarded the bus ...