Before the Lok Sabha elections, a slight rise in the crime is being witnessed in Gwalior city.
A gang of Highway robbers, travelling in a Tata Nano car looted a truck near Ghatigaon on Friday night. The robbers attacked the driver and the cleaner who were sleeping in the truck, looted cash and mobiles and escaped with the truck. Later on the truck and the car were recovered from the Jhansi Road police station area.
According to Prakash Jhat, a resident of Hodal (Haryana), he and the cleaner were sleeping in the truck when three armed robbers attacked them before throwing them out of the truck.
One of the robbers took the keys of the truck and sped away towards Jhansi.
On the complaint of the driver, the police sent wireless messages to all nearby police stations and the truck and the car were recovered. The police also succeeded in arresting one of the gang members while the remaining two escaped from the scene.
On further enquiry it was found that the car belongs to someone in Gwalior. iThe police are making further enquiries.
In another incident the Dial 100 van of the police got information that armed robbers had escaped with a truck parked on the Takhur Baba road.
An alert was raised and later on the truck was seen abandoned in an isolated area of the Jhansi road.
Speaking to the media persons, Praveen Ashtana, SDOP, Ghatigaon said that enquiries are being made on the basis of the registration number of the Nano car and further said that the absconding robbers will be apprehended soon.
There are also reports that many hukka bars are operating illegally in the city. According to sources in the police FIRs have been registered against a few such bars as the officials of the Department of Food and Drug Administration had earlier found that these bars had procured licenses for restaurants but instead were operating as hukka and liquor bars.
Speaking to the media persons, Navneet Bhaseen, Gwalior SP said that the police had earlier got information about the illegal activities going on in some cafes and restaurants.
He added that on the spot verification of these illegal cafes have revealed many irregularities and that the police are taking further action.