Dhanas man with long criminal record nabbed

The Operations Cell of the UT police has arrested a wanted criminal.

The suspect, Vishal Sharma (37), a resident of Dhanas, has over 40 cases of robbery, burglary, house theft, snatching, attempt to murder, rioting, and other serious offences registered against him since 2004.

He was arrested near the National Technical Teachers’ Training and Research Institute in Sector 26 following a tip-off on Tuesday. A knife was recovered from his possession.

A fresh case under Sections 25, 54, and 59 of the Arms Act has been registered against him at the Sector 26 police station.

During the preliminary investigation, it came to light that he was allegedly involved in an assault on two liquor contractors in Dhanas last year following a dispute over the pricing of liquor bottles. The victims, Balwinder Singh and Kuldeep Singh, had suffered serious fractures in their limbs. A case in this connection was registered at the Sarangpur police station on September 23 last year. He had been absconding since then. Vishal is categorised as a “Bad Character” at the Sector 11 police station. A number of cases have been registered against him at various police stations over the past nearly two decades.

The police produced him in a court today, which remanded him in judicial custody.