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Inter-state gang of looters busted

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Press Trust of India Chandigarh
Police today claimed to have busted an inter-state gang of robbers with the arrest of two persons from Rohtak in Haryana who were allegedly involved in number of cases of snatching and loot.

Acting on a tip-off, police arrested the two members of the gang and recovered a country made pistol, a motorcycle and an iron rod from their possession, a police spokesman said.

During the interrogation, the accused admitted having committed 22 crimes of snatching at various places in the state, he said.

They have been identified as Sonu and Ajitpal, residents of Muradabad in Uttar Pradesh, he said, adding they had snatched purses and jewellery from women in Rohtak, Gohana, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Sirsa, Jind, Ratia, Kolhapur, Ghaziabad, Noida and Amroha.

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First Published: Jun 16 2014 | 8:43 PM IST

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