Robbers’ Gang Busted And Illegal Arms Recovered In Patiala
The Patiala police arrested an inter-state gang of nine people, who were involved in several cases of murder, robbery and recovered a lot of illegal arms from them today. On June 21st the gang members had snatched the service weapon of a policeman in Ludhiana.
The senior superintendent of police of Patiala (SSP) HS Mann said that the gang had planned to rob a bank but the PCR officials of Punjab Police led by Superintedent of Police (SP) Bhupinder khatra of Rajpura foiled their plans. When the police tried to stop the two cars at the naka at night the accused fired at them, SSP Mann said. The two cars used were a Swift (CH04AD- 4383) and an Optra (PB24B- 0074) and about 6 people were in the cars on Sirhind Road. Mann also reported that they tried to snatch head Constable Kuldeep Singh’s carbine but fellow policemen nabbed Jaswinder singh alias Honey on the spot. Jaswinder Singh was carrying a 9 mm pistol with three live cartridges.
Singh’s companions Amritpal Singh, Tejinder Singh, Deepi Mandeep Singh and Aman Bains got off the cars and fled. An hour later the police was able to nab Amritpal Singh with a .32 bore revolver and two cartridges, Mann reported. With the help of statements they received from the first two the policenabbed the other two companions Devinder Singh, Sukhbir Singh, Lakhwinder Singh, Pankaj Kumar and Mohammed Afzal from hotel Sunshine in Una, Himachal Pradesh. The police also managed to arrest Harjeet Singh and Rampal Choudhary who has locked themselves up in a rented apartment in Mohali.
Jaswinder Singh alias Honey and his friends snatched a 9mm pistol and a mobile phone from a PCR employee in Ludhiana on the 21st of June. A case under the Arms Act has been registered against the accused Mann reported. With the arrest of the gang members the police are hopeful of cracking the other cases as the gang was involved in several more crimes. These other crimes have gone unreported and they hope to nab them soon.
