Stating that 547 out of 926 wanted criminals have been arrested by the police in various districts of the State, DGP MA Ganapathy said on Tuesday that the rest of the absconders would be arrested soon. He said results had started pouring in after they had embarked on a drive on August 8 to arrest the fugitives.
“The drive is part of the actions we are taking to make the upcoming Assembly election trouble free,” the state’s top cop said. Commenting on the matter, state DIG (law and order) Pushpak Jyoti said that district police heads have been directed to go all- out to capture all the fugitives in course of the ongoing drive.
As per the report received from police headquarters, Uttarkashi district tops the list of success as the police there have arrested all the listed five absconders by August 31. In Dehradun district, the police have managed to arrest 144 fugitives while the number of such people stands at 269. They say they are leaving no stone unturned to capture the remaining 125 wanted criminals.In Haridwar district, while the number of the fugitives stands at 254, police have arrested 137 of them in course of the ongoing drive. 117 absconders are still at large.
The Udham Singh Nagar, while the number of fugitives is 240 police have nabbed 163 of them with 77 remaining out of law’s bounds.
Reports received from Nainital says that police have arrested 78 out of the 109 fugitives. The district police say they would arrest the rest 31 soon.
It is learnt that five criminals against whom cases were lodged with State Government Railway Police (GRP) stations are at large. None of them has been arrested. Moreover, there are three such criminals eluding police in Almora, two in Pithoragarh and one in Rudraprayag districts. In Tehri district, 18 such criminals were absconding when the drive was launched. Out of them, 13 have been arrested since the drive was launched.
In Chamoli district, police have managed to arrest one of the five fugitives. Pauri police have arrested two of the ten criminals recorded absconding. There is no such record of criminals eluding police in Bageshwar district while in Champawat, four of the five wanted criminals have been arrested since August 8-the day the drive was launched, police report says.