In connection with the murder cum armed burglary case reported from Nakraunda, Balawala, Dehradun Police have arrested one more thief named Sazid alias Sonu, resident of Jhabreda, Haridwar and recovered some stolen gold ornaments, pistols and bullets from his possession, said Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajay Rautela while interacting with the media persons. In regards to this case, police have arrested three out of six accused so far. Police teams are working on to arrest others still absconding, he added.
Rautela said that to arrest Sazid, police teams were deployed at many places, including his home town, Haridwar and finally, police managed to arrest the accused Sazid from Buggawala, Haridwar.Based on the information provided by Sazid, Police recovered a 12 bore pistol, 315 bore pistol, five bullets of 12 bore pistol, four bullets of 315 bore and a mobile phone and some gold ornaments.
Sazid along with other gang members had burgled the house at Nakraunda, Balawala on September 10 morning. Several crime cases like loot, burglary and others against Sazid have already been registered in six different police stations in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
It should be mentioned here that in the armed burglary case, around six unidentified criminals had murdered a 23-year-old person named Ankit and four of his family members were injured. Taking cognisance of this case, a case under sections 395, 396 and 397 of IPC was registered in the Raipur police station.
With police facing flaks from the people- the Chief Minister Harish Rawat made things more difficult for them after he had issued a deadline for State and district police to crack the case promptly- the district police had formed several teams and were deployed at many places, including Western Uttar Pradesh. Finally, police succeeded in arresting one of the accused Nadim from Bijnor on September 29 while another accused Shahzad was arrested by Bijnor police. After arrest of Sazid, three accused out of six have been arrested so far. Dehradun Police are conducting raids to arrest the remaining accused -Saziad Pahalwan, Akram and Akhlaq, the police officer said.