Gang of criminals busted, 5 arrested

Fatehgarh Sahib, September 6

The Fatehgarh Sahib police, in coordination with the Ludhiana police, arrested absconding criminal Neeraj Sharma of Ludhiana, along with four of his accomplices, including a woman from Mandi Gobindgarh.

With this, the police had solved a Rs14.5-lakh dacoity case, said SSP Amneet Kondal. The team seized a .32 bore pistol and 15 cartridges from the suspects with an I20 car. A case under Sections 399 and 402, IPC, and Section 25, Arms Act has been registered against them.

Accomplices of Neeraj Sharma are Mandeep of Jalandhar, Deepak of Ludhiana, Gurwinder Singh and Navdeep Kaur, both of Jalandhar. The SSP said all of them were involved in the Ludhiana gambling den dacoity of Rs14.5-lakh. Sharma was facing several criminal cases of dacoity, robbery and attempt to murder, the SSP added.

He was also absconding in an attempt to murder case near Shingar Cinema, Ludhiana, the SSP said. Mandeep was a proclaimed offender, who was arrested in October 2017, the SSP added. “He has 13 criminal cases registered against him. He bailed out in 2019 and fled in March 2020,” the SSP said.

Deepak admitted his involvement in the dacoity. He revealed that he gave two .32 bore pistols to one of the suspects. The gang was planning to rob 4-kg gold from a goldsmith in Hoshiarpur and hatching conpiracy to commit dacoities in Mandi Gobindgarh, the SSP added. — OC