Inter-state gang of highway robbers busted, 4 arrested

Tribune News Service

Kapurthala, March 27

By arresting four persons, the district police on Saturday busted an inter-state gang, which was involved in robbery on highways.

SSP Kapurthala Kanwardeep Kaur said that the gang members were nabbed by a team of police officials under the supervision of Vishaljit Singh, SP Investigation, and Sandeep Singh Mand, DSP Bholath during a special operation.

The gang had carried out large-scale snatching of weapons and large quantities of fish loaded at gunpoint from the Amritsar-Delhi National Highway, under Subhanpur police station area on March 19 and 21.

She said Om Prakash, a resident of Karnal, along with his uncle Vikram Singh, drove his vehicle while carrying 91 sacks of garlic from Karnal mandi to Amritsar but suddenly a Mahindra Pickup without number came near Hamira factory on NH in which four persons thrashed them and took the garlic and fled. 

A case was registered against unknown persons on March 20 at Subhanpur police station.

The accused were identified as Liaqat Ali, Liaqat Ali and Mudassar, all belonging to Kathua, and Satta Masih of Gurdaspur. They all were arrested from Kathua, Jammu.

The investigation also revealed that Liaqat Ali was their gang leader and they targeted the vehicles loaded with vegetables, fruits and livestock and sold the looted goods in the local markets.

During interrogation, two Tata Ace, Ashok Leyland, Mahindra Pickup, an Alto, Rs 78,000 and eight cartons of fish were recovered.