Dehradun police arrested two persons on Saturday for their alleged involvement in stealing two buffaloes from Doiwala area on Friday night. The accused have been identified as Wajid, resident of laksar, Haridwar and Mohammad Asluf, resident of Patelnagar. Wajid, a wage earner was currently living in Patelnagar while Asluf was a driver.
Nirmal Singh, resident of Doiwala, registered a complaint in the police station on Saturday that his two buffalos worth around Rs 1.25 lakhs were stolen by some unidentified persons on late Friday night. SSP Dr Sadanand Date said that police acting swiftly, the information was disseminated through control room. Stringent vehicle checking drive was conducted at Asharodi check post, Clement Town and other places in the area, he added. At ISBT, Police stopped a vehicle loaded with two buffaloes for checking.
later, the duo sitting in the vehicle was arrested. Police recovered both the stolen buffaloes from their possession. However, the third person Shahzad alais Sonu sitting in the vehicle managed to escape from the spot. Team members are working hard to arrest him, police claimed.
In course of interrogation, the accused admitted their offences and said that they used to conduct recce during day time in rural areas for stealing cows and buffaloes, police said.
They further said that the criminals used to steal animals in the night hours and later sell them in Saharanpur, Meerut and other places of Uttar Pradesh. They had stolen several domestic animals from numerous rural areas in the Dehradun district in the past.