Panipat police bust gang of highway robbers, three held
With the arrest of three members of a gang, including the kingpin, the Panipat police claimed to have busted an interstate gang of highway robbers. The gang had committed a robbery near the Police Lines in Panipat on Tuesday night.
The police claimed to have solved a total of five robbery cases which the gang committed on the NH-44 from Delhi to Panipat within the last 15 days.
Lokender Singh, Superintendent of Police (SP), said the arrested accused were Aamir and Aadil of Hathwala village in Samalkha area and Mannu of Nimbri village, presently living in Bharat Nagar here.
The SP, while interacting with mediapersons, said that on Tuesday night, the miscreants robbed goods from a truck on the NH-44 near the Panipat Police lines. They took away the truck driver in their car and tied him to a tree in a field. Following the complaint of truck driver Ramtej Yadav of Chadau Mohalla, a case was registered at the Sector 29 industrial police station.
CIA-1 in-charge Inspector Sandeep Kumar, along with his team, solved the case within 48 hours and arrested two members of the gang, Aamir and Aadil, from Yamuna Bridge on Thursday evening and recovered the car used in the crime, the SP said.
The team then arrested Mannu from Bharat Nagar area, he said.
The accused confessed to have committed four more highway robberies, including three in Sonepat district and one in Delhi, he added.
“All accused are between the age of 25 and 28 years and Aamir is the kingpin of the gang. He has a crime record and was released on bail in July from the Sonepat jail,” the SP said.
After coming out from jail, he, along with Aadil, Mannu and five others, planned to loot trucks laden with goods to earn money, he said.
The SP said the accused were produced in a court on Friday and taken on nine-day police remand to nab other members of the gang.
Five cases solved
- The miscreants looted blankets, medicines, sanitary material, shoes, nuts, cloths and chemicals from a truck on Tuesday night near the Police Lines on NH-44 here.
- They also robbed another truck laden with ghee tins on the NH-44 five days ago in the Murthal area of Sonepat.
- The miscreants stole blankets from another truck on the NH in Rai area of Sonepat around 10 days ago.
- The gang also looted a truck laden with clothes in Rai area around 14 days ago.
- The gang also took away blankets from a truck in the Alipur area of Delhi.
