Gang of snatchers busted, 6 nabbed

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, September 7

A team of of the CIA-2 police today claimed to have busted a gang of snatchers and looters with the arrest of six of its members from an uninhabited house near a garbage dump in Shankar Colony while they were plotting to commit some other crime.

In addition to the recovery of two countrymade pistols (.315 and .12 bore) and other lethal weapons, two stolen motorcycles and two snatched mobile phones were also seized from the accused.

The arrested persons have been identified as Salman Ansari (18), a resident of Mohalla Guru Gobind Singh Nagar, Tibba Road, Mohammed Farid Ashiq (17) of New Shakti Nagar, Tibba Road, Shaqib Malik (20) of Guru Gobind Singh Nagar, Tibba Road, Sohail Malik (23), a resident of Shakti Nagar, Mohammed Shavez (19) of Sarpanch Colony, Kakka, and Mohammed Amir (21) of Mahadev Colony, Kakka.

Preliminary interrogation of the gangsters revealed that all of them were migrants from Uttar Pradesh with four hailing from Saharanpur district and one each from Kairana and Bijnor districts. Ansari and Ashiq had come out on bail together about 10 months ago.

The members of the gang had confessed to have committed at least 25 snatchings, loots, thefts of two-wheelers, mobile phones, yarn, cash and other valuables in Tibba, Moti Nagar, Basti Jodhewal, Meharban, Daresi and Salem Tabri. The police said the accused were being taken on police remand for further interrogation.