The judicial magistrate sent five accused jewel thieves to fourteen days in judicial custody after the Pauri police produced them in the court. The Pauri Kotwali station house officer KC Bhatt along with a police team, on the intensive checking of vehicles at Kandoliya Chauhara near Bubakhal arrested five thieves with the stolen jewellary with two vehicles on Sunday. The arrested thieves had stolen jewellery from Chan Bandhu Jewellers , Bajjaro on March 16 and on March 17 from Sagar Jewellers Kotdwar.
The Pauri Senior Superintendent of Police has announced a cash reward of `2500 to encourage the police team for the achievement.
Pauri police kotwali SHO Bhatt said that the arrested jewel thieves include Sajjad (28 years) a resident of Piran Kaliyar,Haridwar, Asgar Ali (21 years) hailing from Thana Devband, Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Mirza Hussain (30 years) of Piran Kaliyar, Haridwar, Haseen (23 years) of village Khatanagaria, Thana Milak Rampur and Shabbir Ali (38 years) of Devband, Saharanpur.
The police have recovered all the jewellery stolen from the two jewellery shops.
The jewel thieves had committed their crimes after reconnoitering the jewellery shops. A duo came on a motorcycle number UK-17 a-6352 and a trio came in a car number Dl-3cv 9200 near the jewellery shop at Bajjaro. The motorcyclists entered the shop of Vijaypal Chand Singh and purchased a silver Challa, diverting his attention while other gang members lifted the jewellery bagging it in the plastic bag and then escaped from the site in their vehicles. On the report the revenue police Bangyarsun registered a case against unknown under section 380 of Indian Penal Code. On the same pattern these thieves stole jewellery from Sagar Jewellers shop at Jhanda Chowk in Kotdwar. The Kotdwar police registered a case against unknown under section 379 of IPC. Bhatt said the group of jewellery thieves was being headed by Sajjad.