Khanna Police cracks several cases of vehicle thefts by arresting an inter-state gang of thieves

Khanna Police cracks several cases of vehicle thefts by arresting an inter-state gang of thieves

Harshabab Sidhu
Nabaz-e-Punjab, Khanna, October 6:
Punjab Police today busted an inter-state gang of vehicle lifters who used to steal Mahindra Bolero Pick up and other vehicles from states of Punjab and Haryana.
Disclosing this here today, SSP Khanna Harpreet Singh said on the basis of secret inputs, a team of Khanna Police laid a blockade near village Chomon and apprehended five persons with the stolen vehicles.
He informed that the arrested persons were selling spare parts of these stolen vehicles at scrap godown of Amrik Ram and Vicky Ram at Model Town Maloud after dismantling the vehicles.
SSP Harpreet Singh apprised that under the supervision of Manpreet Singh SP-l Khanna and Hardeep Singh DSP Payal, Inspector Karnail Singh, SHO Payal Inspector Gurmail Singh, Incharge CIA Khanna alongwith Police Party have apprehended these robbers.
He further added that the accused have been identified as Naresh alias Kalu of village Biran in Bhiwani district in Haryana, Neeraj of Sheetal Nagar Rohtak, Lakhvir Singh alias Lakhi of Sangrur district, Amrik Ram and Vicky Ram from Maloud village in district Ludhiana. He added that the police have recovered two stolen Bolero Pick up vehicles from their possession.
He further informed that during the interrogation, the accused revealed that they had stolen these vehicles from Ambala along with their partners Amrik Ram, Vicky Ram, and Deepak. In addition to this, they have also admitted that they had stolen many vehicles from the area of Ambala, Hisar, Patiala, Sangrur and Dhuri.
It has came to light that they used to dismantle the stolen vehicles and further sold their spare parts to accused Amrik Ram for around ₹50,000.
The SSP stated that this interrogation led to the sealing of the godown belonging to accused Ram where these accused used to store stolen vehicles, spare parts and dismantle them in pieces to sell it further in the market. Furthermore, they are still being questioned and there is a possibility of major disclosures as well as remaining accused would be arrested soon.
In this regard, a case under Sections 379, 411 and 201 of the IPC at the Maloud police station was registered against the accused.
He revealed that many pending cases are being traced out with their arrest. However, several cases pending against them have been resolved with the arrest of these vehicle lifters. Earlier, 20 FIRs in Haryana and 12 FIRs in Punjab were registered against them, said the SSP.