Ludhiana, June 13 -- The Government Railway Police (GRP) has recovered gold worth Rs.8lakh rupees from an inter-state gang of thieves, who were arrested on June 7 for robbing jewellery worth Rs.23 lakh from a family returning from Bihar on May 30.

The recovery was made from Hansi village in Haryana, which is the native village of the arrested robbers. "We had taken a three-day remand of these thieves and during interrogation they revealed that they had kept some of the gold at their native village. We reached there and recovered the gold," said inspector Palwinder Singh, in-charge of GRP Ludhiana.

Earlier the police had said that it was a gang of six but upon interrogation they found that it was a gang of four only.

The family was very...