After chase, Garhshankar police arrest car snatchers within hours

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Garhshankar, May 21

The Garhshankar police arrested three armed robbers when they were escaping after snatching a car on the Chandigarh Road this evening.

According to information, Sajan of Rodamjara village under Garhshankar police station told the reporters late this evening that he was employed in an IELTS centre and consultancy in Nawanshahr (Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar). He was on way back home in his car at around six o’clock. When he diverted the car towards petrol pump on the Chandigarh Road he got a call from a relative who wished to go home with him, so he stopped the car a little behind the petrol pump and started waiting for him. Meanwhile, a car stopped near him and three young men came out of it. Coming to him, they pointed a pistol at his head and asked him to come out of the car. Before he could understand anything, they forcibly pulled him out of the car and managed to flee in his car. A passerby seeing all this informed the police. The police immediately rushed to the spot, took him in the car and started chasing the snatched vehicle on the Chandigarh Road. The cops informed the Samundra police post and asked them to lay a blockade on the Chandigarh Road. The Samudra police laid a blockade on the Chandigarh Road immediately. Meanwhile, the miscreants in the snatched car reached there and police stopped it. Chasing the car snatchers, the Garhshankar police too reached there. The three robbers were arrested and brought to the Garhshankar police station. Police station in-charge Inspector Iqbal Singh said they had arrested the armed robbers and recovered the car from them. Iqbal Singh said after investigation of the matter, a case would be registered against the accused.