After the Saharanpur police padded their back for recovering stolen buffaloes of Samajwadi Party leader, now cops of the Bareilly district claimed to have achieved a rare feet by making arrest of the leader of gang, involved in buffalo theft. The gang managed to get away with the buffaloes of Bharatiya Janata Party Member of legislative Assembly from Awla constituency, Dharmpal Singh.
Police sources said one Akram was nabbed by the police from Kesarpur village under the Sirauli police station for stealing the livestock of BJP MlA, adding that, Akram confessed that he along with his few other cohorts burgled nine buffaloes from the farm house of Singh on the intervening night of June 22. He also confessed the livestock was sold by them to a slaughter house of Rampur district. Other cohorts of Akram were yet to be arrested.
It may be mentioned here that Singh had complained of this to the DGP, Jagmohan Yadav, stating that cops were not trying to search his buffaloes when the entire administration was indulged in searching the buffaloes of Urban Development Minister Mohammad Azam Khan. Police have registered six cases against the accused, said police sources.