Dry fruit robbery: Three more arrested
The Amritsar Rural Police have nabbed three more persons in connection with the robbery of dry fruit occurred at a cold storage in Ibban Kalan village here on September 4.
Those arrested have been identified as Dharminder Singh, Harpreet Singh and Sahil Singh of Asal village in Ferozepur. Earlier, the police had arrested a notorious criminal Thana Singh of Zira along with three other looters in the case. The three others were identified as Parveen Singh of Zira, Jaswinder Kaur of Gurdaspur and Ravinder Singh of Adampur.
Thana Singh has 11 criminal cases registered against him while Jaswinder and Ravinder also have one case each registered against them.
Police teams had recovered huge quantities of dry fruit and other grocery items looted from the storage facility. They also recovered 29 bags (weighing 30 kg each) of black pepper, 40 bags (weighing 30 kg each) of black grams, 189 tins of cashew, 62 boxes of fig, 76 buckets of almond, five bags of turmeric, besides other items.
Amritsar (Rural) SSP Charanjit Singh said the prime accused and others were produced in a court and brought on police remand for further investigation.
On the intervening night of September 3 and 4, over a dozen armed robbers detained the two watchmen and labourers at the cold storage facility owned by Happy Arora and decamped with dry fruits and grocery items worth crores of rupees from there.
A large number of traders of Majith Mandi area in the walled city store their goods there. The incident had led to panic among the trading community. A number of political leaders had visited the site and met with businessmen to allay their fears. They also assured them of the perpetrators’ arrest soon.
