5 thieves nabbed from Ludhiana city

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, December 6

The city police have arrested five thieves and snatchers from various parts of the city on Sunday and made recovery of a motorcycle, a scooter and nine mobile phones of different brands from them.

The police said two thieves and pickpockets, identified as Sarika and Mani Kumar, both residents of Jalandhar City, were arrested from near City Hotel on Old GT Road on Sunday on a tip-off and search of the accused led to the recovery of four mobile phones. The accused have been booked under Sections 379 and 411 of the IPC.

Two other two-wheeler thieves, Biru of Vijay Nagar and his accomplice Jaswinder Singh, a resident of Janakpuri, were nabbed from the T-Point near the Civil Hospital on Sunday. They were riding a stolen Honda Activa scooter (bearing registration no. PB 091G 7264). A stolen Samsung mobile phone was also seized from the accused who had been booked under Sections 379 and 411 of the IPC.

Another two wheeler thief, Nikka of Puneet Nagar was held from the Labour Colony cut on a tip-off. In the course of investigation, a stolen motorcycle (without number plate) and four mobile phone handsets were recovered from the accused who had been booked under Sections 379 and 411 of the IPC.

Motorcycle stolen

A Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle (bearing registration no. PB 10HM 4992) was reportedly stolen from Chowpatty Market at Fountain Chowk on Sunday. Karan Bhardwaj, a resident of Sham Nagar, reported to the police that he had parked his two-wheeler at Chowpatty Market near Pavillion Mall. He said when he returned after some time it was missing. The police have registered a case under Section 379 of the IPC.

Factory burgled

An auto parts unit located at Lakhowal village was burgled on the intervening night of December 4 and 5 and thieves decamped with a computer CPU and unspecified quantity of finished goods and raw material. Manager of the factory Deepak Malhotra lodged a report with the police, saying when he reached the factory on Sunday morning, its main gate was lying open and min shed and store were ransacked. The police had registered a case under Sections 427 and 380 of the IPC.

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