A couple of days after a wanted thief from Rajasthan was arrested in Dehradun, four members of a gang of land-grabbers absconding from Rajasthan were arrested by the Uttarakhand Police at Ranichauri in Tehri district. The Rajasthan police have taken custody of the four arrested men and taken them back to Rajasthan from where they have been absconding for the last one year.
According to sources, the police had learnt that some criminals from Rajasthan had reached Ranichauri in Tehri district about six days ago. Based on this input, the Chamba police had been combing the area in question for some days. On Wednesday a six-member team of Rajasthan police also reached Chamba. According to the police, the four men- Shiv Pratap, Mahipal, Bharat Singh and Rajendra Singh were
members of a gang active in Vaishalinagar area of Jaipur in Rajasthan.
The members of this gang specialised in taking forceful possession of land plots and attacking the land owners who objected to the land grab.
A violent altercation had taken place last year between the gangs headed by Shiv Pratap and Himmat Singh after which Pratap’s gang escaped from the area. In a joint operation undertaken by the Chamba police and the police team from Rajasthan, the four gang members were arrested in Ranichauri on Wednesday night.
According to the Chamba police station officer KC Bhatt, the gang members had been staying at Ranichauri for the past six days. The Rajasthan police team had left with the
arrested gang members for Rajasthan, he added.