5 held for looting foreign national near Chhat village

Tribune News Service

Mohali, August 29

The Zirakpur police today claimed to have arrested five persons for looting cash, a mobile phone and passport from a foreign student near Chhat village in Banur.

The arrested accused have been identified as Beeru, a resident of Sarai Vanjana village in Rajpura; Bunty Kumar, a resident of Nagar Kheda Gujranwala and presently residing in Dhakansu village near Rajpura; Vishal, also a resident of Dhakansu village; Lakhvir Singh, a resident of Bharat Colony in Rajpura and presently residing at Dhakansu village; and Baldev Raj, a resident of Talania village in Fatehgarh Sahib district and presently living in Dhakansu village.

The police said Salahidin Basir Khairalsid, a resident of Alkhatharom village in Sudan and presently residing in Housefed Complex in Banur, Mohali, in his complaint stated that he was pursing BTech from SVIET College, Banur. On August 22, he boarded an auto-rickshaw at the Banur barrier for Zirakpur. Five persons were already present in the auto.

When the auto reached the traffic light point near Chhat village, the five occupants, along with the auto driver, started manhandling him and forcibly took away a kit bag containing his passport, cash and a mobile phone from him.

The driver, along with the five occupants, fled the spot after the incident.

A case under Section 379-B of the IPC was registered against the unidentified accused at the Zirakpur police station on August 23.

The police said a special team, headed by Sub-Inspector Balwinder Singh, was constituted. The police arrested the five suspects and recovered the looted articles from their possession. The police also seized the auto involved in the incident. The accused would be produced in a court tomorrow to seek their police remand to investigate their involvement in other looting incidents.