The Kotdwar police caught four youth in connection with an incident that involved abuse, manhandling, taking objectionable photographs of a girl and looting at the Pulinda road on the weekend. The police are stated to have apprehended the four youth about one and a half hours after the incident was reported to have taken place. The deputy superintendent of police, Kotdwar, revealed the details of the incident on Sunday morning. The Pauri senior superintendent of police Jagat Ram Joshi and deputy inspector general of Garhwal Range Pushpak Jyoti announced cash rewards for police team which caught the four accused.
According to Kotdwar police, the four youth on the two motorcycle surrounded a man and his niece on the Pulinda motor road when the duo had stopped to drink water. The youth allegedly abused the duo verbally, manhandled them and also took objectionable photographs before looting them. The man informed the police about the incident after which the police arrived at the scene of crime. Seeking details from the victimised girl, the police identified the four youth and later apprehended them recovering the Rs 6,000 they had stolen and four mobile phones from them. The police claimed that they found six objectionable photographs of the victim from these mobile phones. The four youth caught by the police are said to have confessed to having looted Rs 6,00 and clicked the objectionable photographs.