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3 suspected highway robbers arrested after encounter in UP: Police

Three people who allegedly robbed a man were arrested after a brief encounter with police in which the trio and two police personnel were injured in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh

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Press Trust of India Etawah (UP)

Three people who allegedly robbed a man were arrested after a brief encounter with police in which the trio and two police personnel were injured in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, an officer said on Wednesday.

All the injured were admitted to the district hospital where their condition was stated to be stable.

According to the police, the trio robbed the man of jewellery and motorcycle at gunpoint on the Etawah-Farukhabad highway when he was returning from Saifai along with his sister.

Responding to a call to emergency response number 112, police personnel stopped the trio at a checkpoint, but they tried to flee.

 

An encounter ensued in which the trio, Chaubia police station SHO Mukesh Solanki and constable Arvind were injured.

The trio were subsequently arrested and a country-made pistol and the looted items were seized, Senior Superintendent of Police of Etawah Brijesh Kumar Singh said.

The trio were identified as Madhuresh, Sallu and Dalveer.

Dalveer is a resident of Mainpuri and has over two dozen criminal cases pending against him.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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First Published: Aug 04 2021 | 11:29 AM IST

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