In a major development in one of the biggest theft in Delhi the driver of a cash van who ran away with Rs. 22.5 crore yesterday evening has been arrested by the police in Okhla area. The driver has been identified as Pardeep Shukla and is currently in police custody. The driver Pradeep Shukla, 35, allegedly ran away with the money at around 5:45pm on Thursday, in Delhi’s Govindpuri area. He was arrested in Okhla. On Thursday, an armed guard accompanying the cash transit van – that had been used to pick up cash from an Axis bank branch — asked the driver to stop the vehicle near Govindpuri Metro station so he could relieve himself. Shukla told the guard that he would wait for him in a lane nearby but he drove away instead. The guard, Vinay Patel, informed his boss at the security agency and the police were notified. This was said to be the biggest robbery of Delhi so far. Police said that this was likely the biggest cash heist in Delhi after the January 2014 gunpoint robbery of Rs 7.69 crores from a businessman at the BRT corridor near Moolchand flyover.