A police sub-inspector sustained bullet injury during an exchange of fire while Haridwar police were chasing some alleged robbers on Saturday. Three of them were later arrested. The injured sub-inspector was Ravindra who was posted at Jhabreda.
Giving details of the incident, Roorkee CO SK Singh said Umesh Kumar, sub-inspector from Mangalour police station, while on patrolling duty along with his team members had found some persons felling trees. “Seeing the policemen near, they hid themselves in a sugarcane field. After the senior police officers were informed teams from Manglour, Jhabreda and Bahadrabad were sent to nab them.
However, the criminals opened fire, targeting the police team from the sugarcane field. Police resorted to firing too. During the exchange of firing, a sub-inspector Ravindra posted at Jhabreda received bullet injury in one of his arms. One criminal was injured too. later, police arrested three criminals- Yakub alias Rashid, Satbeer alias Shahwaz and Rashid alias Mahbub-all from Muzaffarnagar Uttar Pradesh,” he said.
He further said that two pistols, some cartridges, some stolen gold ornaments, mobile phones, pan cards and Rs 4000 in cash were recovered from their possession.
It is learnt from police sources that the criminals are old hands in robbery. They are tagged with several such cases of robbery committed on the highways. They are said to have revealed during interrogation that they had killed a medical practitioner recently when he had refused to give them the money demanded of him.
“The criminals used to waylay vehicles during the night hours on the highways and other desolate roads and robbed those who were in such cars,” said CO Singh said, adding that the trio has been sent to jail after being produced in the court. Police would pursue in the court for their police custody remand to crack some more such robberies that happened in the region, he said.