In a major breakthrough, Dehradun Police busted a gang allegedly adept in burgling shops and lifting vehicles from the market areas on Wednesday. Police arrested three criminals, all members of a gang, and recovered stolen items-vehicles and electronic tools, 37 mobile phones, a bike, two laptops, lED, TFT monitor, two CCTV cameras, three home theaters, six speakers and more from their possession.
Tipped that some thieves were roaming in Nehru Colony area to commit thefts, police swung into action and arrested the accused - Shubham Negi, resident of lakhibagh, Aashu Kumar, resident of Nai Basti, Banjarawala, Manish alias Aryan, resident of THDC Colony, Dehrakhas.
SP City Ajay Singh said that in view of increasing thefts, teams at police station levels have been formed and directed to be vigilant in their assigned areas.
Nehru Colony police station in-charge sub-inspector Mukesh Kumar Tyagi led a team and conducted vehicle checking drives at Motharawala Chowk. Police asked three persons sitting on a bike to stop for checking. But as they tried to flee police chased and nabbed them. later, they were arrested.
Police checked the bags they were carrying and found a laptop and other items. While being interrogated, they admitted that they had stolen them from an electronic shop at Hanuman Chowk. Interrogation revealed that the trio was from a notorious gang involved in sealing vehicles and burgling houses in the city.
On October 28, they together had burgled a shop Kuldeep Communication located at Deepnagar area and stolen mobile phones and other electronic goods from it. Based on their information, police recovered stolen items from their possession. Interrogation also revealed that Shubham Negi is the gang leader. Several cases have been registered against them in various police stations based in the capital in the past, Singh added.