POLICE HAVE busted a gang of robbers involved in 18 cases under various police stations here and adjacent districts. Police arrested eight members of the gang and recovered four country made pistols, a rifle, 13 live cartridges and stolen jewellery worth Rs 50,000.
Talking to mediapersons, senior superintendent of police Dipesh Kumar Juneja said the criminals rode bicycles into villages on the pretext of buying bicycles.
They used to identify houses and strike in an organised manner, he added. He claimed the arrested miscreants had confessed to their crime.
The miscreants threatened villagers with pistols and locked them in a room.
Their associates took advantage of this to loot valuables and household goods.
Juneja laid stress on community participation to combat crime in the district. Terming the arrest of dacoits as an achievement, he said police had identified the shops where miscreants sold jewellery.
He said the police would recover other valuables and arrest the remaining members of the gang soon.
To a question, he said nine incidents of dacoity and theft were registered against the gang in Gagha, Belipar, Gola and Sahjanwa police stations. Besides, criminals were involved in various cases in Sant Kabirnagar, Mau and Azamgarh districts.
He said in view of increasing cases of crime, police had constituted a squad. It was led by Belipar station incharge Bakridan Ali and Gagha station officer BP Tripathi. On a tip-off, police arrested Aslam, Banwari alias Rais, Zakir Husain alias Shahar Alam etc. They were all residents of Salarpur village, under Gagha police station.
{{/usCountry}}He said in view of increasing cases of crime, police had constituted a squad. It was led by Belipar station incharge Bakridan Ali and Gagha station officer BP Tripathi. On a tip-off, police arrested Aslam, Banwari alias Rais, Zakir Husain alias Shahar Alam etc. They were all residents of Salarpur village, under Gagha police station.
{{/usCountry}}Besides, police arrested Maqbool, Zulfikar, Asgar, Salim, Bechu of Jamalpur village under Ghosi police station in Mau district. Juneja admitted his subordinates registered an FIR under Section 382 of the IPC, considered a relatively minor offence. However, the case could be upgraded to one of dacoity during investigation, he added.