India, Dec. 17 -- The Gurugram police crime branch on Tuesday arrested a 40-year-old personal security officer (PSO) for allegedly stealing Rs.50 lakh in cash from a wine shop in Sector 57 and recovered Rs.49.5 lakh from the boot of his car parked at a municipal parking lot in Delhi.

The suspect, Jai Pratap Singh, a resident of Belahar village in Uttar Pradesh, had been working as a PSO with the Discovery Wine Group for the past 10 years. He told the police that he needed the money to set up a fruit orchard in Himachal Pradesh.

Singh was arrested by a crime branch team from Sector 56.

According to the police, Singh's employer had given him Rs.50 lakh in cash from the Discovery Wine Shop to take from Sector 57 to Delhi on December 10. ...