In major development STF jawans arrested a wanted criminal accused in various crimes and recently looting from a diamond merchant of Bhav Nagar of Gujarat. Police said the accused carried a reward of Rs5000 on his head.
The police are interrogating him. Police said STF police received a tip off from an informer that Dilip Yadav, a resident of Kachnavkalan Bhind, was roaming in the city on a two wheeler bike to commit some crimes. Acting on the information the STF jawans found him near a petrol pump Suresh Nagar Thatipur and immediately arrested him. A police officer said Yadav had looted a diamond merchant in Bhav Nagar Gujarat of Rs15 lakh on 28 June last. Apart from this nearly half a dozen cases of loot, theft, beating and murder were registered against him in various police stations. He had also looted a truck from Bhind. The police recovered Rs1.07 lakh in cash, 17 diamonds and 315 bore revolvers with two live cartridges and black color pulsar bike from.