4 held for looting vehilces; car, motorcycle, pistol seized

The local police on Sunday claimed to have solved a number of cases of burglary and looting of vehicles with the arrest of four youths.

The local police on Sunday claimed to have solved a number of cases of burglary and looting of vehicles with the arrest of four youths.

The accused have been identified as Joginder Singh, 23, a resident of Bhiwani; Rajinder, 19, a resident of Hisar; Deepak Kumar, 23, a resident of Bhiwani and Shubham, 19, a resident of Hisar.

“After the preliminary interrogation, a Maruti Swift car worth Rs 6 lakh and a luxury motorcycle worth `2.3 lakh have been recovered from them, besides, a country-made pistol,” said Panchkula deputy commissioner of police Anil Dhawan.

According to the police, on February 12, the gang had snatched a motorcycle from Kalka. On December 27, 2015, they broke into a electronics showroom in Barwala and took away a number of LCDs. On December 30, 2015, the gang had burgled a garment store in Naraingarh (Ambala).

On January 14, 2015, Deepak, Joginder, along with one Sunil Kumar, looted a Maruti Swift car at gunpoint from Gurgaon. They had also looted a Volkswagen Polo car on November 22, 2015, at gunpoint from Sirsa.

How they were caught

Crime Investigation Agency’s inspector Narendar Kadiyan said they were on patrolling on Saturday night when a person complained to them that a group of youths tried to rob him of his car at the Sectors 23/24 crossing. The police formed two teams to nab the accused. Interestingly, the accused tried to dispossess one of the two police teams of a private vehicle they were travelling in, leading to their arrest.