Ludhiana Police release photos of 40 Irani gang members

Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, July 1

After four men posing as police personnel looted a jewellery parcel worth Rs 12 lakh from a Chandigarh-based man on June 23 here, the presence of Irani gang members in the industrial hub has been confirmed by the police. The members of the gang had entered the state, also Ludhiana, to target traders in the guise of police officials.

Taking immediate action, the police released pictures of 40 Irani gang members. After the incident on June 23, An FIR was registered on Wednesday. The gang had committed several loots in Ludhiana in the past three years.

Mukesh Kumar of Sector 22-B, Chandigarh, told the police that on June 23 on behalf of his Ambey Express Logistics company, which deals in gold and diamonds, he had come to the city to deliver 10 parcels of jewellery to their client in Sarafa Market. After my driver parked the car, I was heading towards the market when I was stopped by a man who was posing himself as a policeman near the MC office.

“He took me to the other side of the road where three more persons were standing and they started frisking my bag. Later, they let me go. When I reached my client’s shop, I was shocked to see that two parcels containing jewellery of Rs 12 lakh were missing, “ the complainant alleged.

ADCP Pragya Jain said some Irani gang members were arrested by the police in 2019 and the police had clues that the same gang had committed the incident.

“We are also going to put photographs of these gang members in city areas so that people stay alert. I have also instructed all police station heads that no police official without uniform will frisk any stranger,” she said.

As per police sources, an Irani gang has again entered the state and started targeting people as police imposters. As many as 600 members of the gang are reportedly active in the country, of which 30 are in the state. The miscreants are reportedly inspired by Akshay Kumar-starrer Bollywood film ‘Special 26’. Shia Mohamad, basically from Iran, is the kingpin of the gang. Gang members are mainly residing in 12 states. Besides executing loots as police imposters, they have been sending members to other states. Grandparents of these gang members had come from Iran and now, they were settled in various places of the country. Though they mainly know Hindi, Marathi and Kannada, wherever they go, they learn the language of that region. The states where they are residing are Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Bihar, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.

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