SAS Nagar (Mohali) police on Tuesday claimed to have nabbed seven members of the notorious Kala Kachha gang, active in the tri-city of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali.
The gang struck at three places near a village in Zirakpur during intervening night of July 25 and 26, decamping with cash, jewellery and odd items and injuring six persons including three women. The incident took place just two days after the y struck at three farmhouses in Mullanpur and Khuda lahora.
“SAS Nagar Police has taken the spurt of terror created by these anti-social elements known as Kala Kachha gangs in the areas of tricity seriously….and the seven members of the gang were nabbed during nakabandi in the area of Dera Bassi police station near village Sundran. A case under sections 399,402 of the Indian Penal Code and 25 Arms Act is registered against them at Dera Bassi police station,” said IGP Patiala (Zonal) PS Gill.
The arrest has been made during the intervening night of August 4 and 5…On a tip off, the police apprehended five members of the gang and arrested them, while two others were arrested later. One country-made .12 bore pistol along with two live cartridges, two handles of hand pumps, iron rods, three safaida logs and three motor cycles were recovered from the possession of arrested members, he added.
He said that these gangs always resort to brutal way of committing crime by using lethal weapons such as iron rods, handles of hand pumps, safaida logs as also country-made fire arms. “Members of this gang first mercilessly beat people and then commit crime. They make residential houses at outskirts of villages, farm houses, deras, religious places their targets during dark nights,” he added.
Gill said that they were adopting modus-oprendi of committing a series of crime with a view to create panic and terror among the people of particular region.
He pointed out that in view of recent crime committed by these gangs in the areas of tri-city, Mohali police intensified night patrolling and night checking of suspected persons in a very professional and effective manner.
Gill said that during interrogation, they confessed their involvement in loot of cash and jewellery in Kharar, two farm houses in village Seonk, Mullanpur, village Khuda lahora, village Sanoli in Zirakpur, village Behra in Dera Bassi, among others.