In a major success, the district police arrested three jewel thieves on Sunday. Addressing the media on Sunday, the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dehradun, Sweety Agrawal said that on March 13, case of theft of jewellery and cash of C`20,000 was reported by one Rajesh Kumar Kakkar, a resident of Alaknanda Enclave, GMS road at Vasant Vihar police station. The thieves had broken into his house and decamped with cash and jewelry. The SSP said that incharge of the Vasant Vihar Police station, Rituraj Singh constituted a team to nab the culprits.
The police team activated its informer system and engaged in fact finding. The team also searched the CCTV footage of the area. The team got specific information that on Sunday, three jewel thieves are expected to divide the booty.
The police was informed that the thieves would move past General Mahadev Singh Road on Sunday morning in a blue coloured Wagon —R car. The police team scrambled itself and located the car coming from the direction of Shimla by-pass.
A member of Women Cheetah police asked the suspected vehicle to stop but the alarmed culprits tried to evade the police by reversing the vehicle but their effort was foiled and the vehicle was stopped by the police.
On checking of the vehicle the police team recovered stolen jewellery. On interrogation the trio initially tried to fool the police by giving wayward and irrelevant information. However on being questioned sternly they yielded and confessed their involvement in the heist at the residence of Kakkar. They also accepted that their involvement in thefts at two more houses in Niranjanpur and Kanwali Road areas.
The police arrested Mohammad Nadeem, a resident of district Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, Saleem of Bijnor (UP) and Sonu Kumar of Meerut (UP).
The three were produced in the court which sent them into judicial custody. The DIG Garhwal declared a cash reward of `5000 for the police team while the SSP rewarded the team with `2500. The superintendent of police (City) Ajay Singh was also among those present at the Press conference.