1 held for looting filling station near Kurali

Tribune News Service

Mohali, July 11

The police arrested a suspect and named three others in the looting incident at a filling station in Sahauran village near Kurali in the wee hours of July 4.

The CIA staff today arrested Ravi Kumar, a resident of Banur, near the Sahauran bus stand.

Kiratpur Sahib residents Jaswinder Singh, alias Binder, Jaspreet Singh, alias Nupi, and Sirsa resident Gaurav Jain, alias Minku, have been identified as other suspects involved in the incident. A case under Sections 307, 392, 342 and 34 of the IPC was registered at the Sadar Kharar police station on July 4.

Four miscreants looted around Rs80,000 and a mobile phone at gunpoint from two employees of a filling station on the Kurali road in Kharar on July 4.

The incident took place around 2.15 am when two men carrying a pistol barged into the office of Bheem filling station near Sahauran village and fired one round before looting cash from the employees. The police recovered the empty shell of a round.

The police claimed that the trio was involved in the loot incident on July 4. However, they were arrested from Khanna on July 6.

Jaspreet Singh, Jaswinder Singh, and Gaurav Jain, alias Minku, are alleged members of a Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) module. The trio, along with one more member, was arrested from Khanna after exchange of fire on July 6. The suspects were involved in several crime incidents such as murder, attempt to murder, gunpoint robberies and carjacking.

Jaspreet is facing trial in seven cases and was dismissed from the Army.