5 gang members sent to three-day police remand

Zirakpur, August 30

The police today sent five members of a gang, who looted Rs10,000, a mobile phone and documents from a Sudan national near the Airport light point on August 24, to three-day police remand.

The suspects have been identified as Biru, a resident of Patiala, and Bunty Kumar, Vishal, Lakhvir Singh and Baldev Raj, residents of Rajpura. They have been booked under Section 379-B of the IPC at the Zirakpur police station. The police have recovered the auto and other items.

On August 24, complainant Salahuddin Bashir Khair Syed, a BTech student, told the police that he took a shared auto from Banur to Zirakpur. When the auto reached the Airport light point, the suspects told him that he was dealing in drugs and they would hand him over to the police.

When Syed realised that the suspects were planning to rob him, he jumped out of the auto. The suspects stopped the vehicle and started beating him. They later fled with his belongings, said the police. — TNS