Seven nabbed in separate incidents

Payal, October 10

Teams of the Payal police have arrested seven miscreants in separate cases and recovered huge quantities of banned materials and stolen goods from them.

A .32 bore pistol, two motorcycles used in crime, 36 bottles of illicit liquor, electrical conductors stolen from transformers and a mobile phone snatched from a woman were seized from the accused at separate places.

Payal DSP Davinder Kumar said police personnel, led by SHO Karnail Singh, had booked all accused in four separate cases.

Inderjit Singh of Akbarpur Chhanna in Malerkotla district and Pardeep Singh of Dulachi Majra in Ropar were arrested at a naka at the Barmali T-point near Payal and a .32 pistol and a cartridge was recovered from Pardeep.

In another incident, the police recovered 36 bottles of illicit liquor from Buta Singh of Rauni village in the Payal subdivision, when he was going to deliver the consignment to his customers and arrested him.

The police also succeeded in solving cases of theft of components of electric transformers installed in fields situated on the outskirts of villages. Huge quantities of electrical conductors stolen from various fields were recovered from Jasvir Singh, Iqbal Singh and Sukhwinder Singh of Dhamot Kalan village. Gurpreet Singh Guri of Ghudani Khurad was booked on the complaint of Ruby of Ranipur and a mobile phone snatched from the latter was recovered from Gurpreet. He was arrested and two motorcycles used in crime were also seized. — OC

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