Two arrested for snatching mobiles in Ludhiana

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, August 16

The police have arrested two mobile phone snatchers identified as Gurpreet Singh, a resident of Gurpal Nagar, and his accomplice Mandeep Singh, a resident of Kot Managal Singh, and a snatched mobile phone was recovered from them. The duo were apprehended during the investigation of a mobile phone snatching incident reported by Khursheed Ali of Gulabi Bagh on Tibba Road.

The victim had told the police that while going home on a scooter with his friend Imran on August 13, two motorcycle-borne youths snatched his mobile phone near the Punjab Mata Nagar cut and fled the spot.

The police have registered a case under Sections 379-B and 34 of the IPC against them.

One held for stealing power cables, AC pipes

The police have traced a theft of power cables and AC pipes which occurred at an under-construction house in Jain Colony on Jassian Road on August 10 and a man, identified as Rocky, a resident of Jassian Road, has been arrested in this regard. The police said some of the stolen power cables were recovered from the accused. Manav Sood, owner of the house, had reported the theft of cables and pipes from his house and the culprit was identified from the CCTV footage of cameras installed in the building.

The police have booked the accused under Sections 457 and 380 of the Indian penal Code.

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