The Dehradun police have arrested two criminals from Vikasnagar and recovered a stolen sports utility vehicle, firearms and cartridges from them on Monday.
The accused have been identified as Tarun and Shiv Singh, natives of Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh).
Dehradun senior superintendent of police, Sweety Aggarwal said that on December 13, Sunder lal, resident of Jamnipur, Herbertpur had registered a complaint at Vikasnagar police station, stating that two persons had boarded the car at Herbertpur bus stop on December 12 and, taking up another in the car, the trio had fled away with the car after beating him, snatching his ATM card and throwing him out of the car at a desolate place near Najibabad.
Acting on the complaint, a case under section 394 of IPC was registered against unidentified persons in the Vikasnagar police station. A team led by senior sub-inspector Sanjay Mishra was formed to investigate the case. Based on CCTV footage, the team collected photos of the accused. Acting on a tip- off that two persons in a SUV were roaming around the forest area along Shimla Bypass, the team arrested the duo and recovered SUV, a country- made pistol, 303 bore firearm and cartridges from them.
Interrogation of the accused revealed that they are operating under a gang -- Thakur gang –involved in committing thefts, loot, burglary and others at places in Delhi, Western Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Dehradun. Several criminal cases have been registered against the accused in various police stations of aforesaid places, SSP said, adding that the team had been awarded with Rs 2500 for cracking the case.