Dehradun Police are still clueless about the identity of the offenders in the armed burglary case that resulted in the murder of a 23-year-old person and injury to four persons of the same family in Balawala area on September 10. However, the district Police have arrested four thieves and claimed to have solved many burglary and loot cases reported in the State capital.
State Chief Minister Harish Rawat has strictly directed the district police to solve the Balawala armed burglary case by a deadline he had fixed for them. He warned they would have to face music in case they fail to achieve breakthrough before the deadline expired.
Reacting to questions about the local residents’ outrage over police failing to crack such cases and unnecessarily harassing them in the name of police verification drives in some areas in the State capital, CM Rawat said, “We will not interfere as far as the the investigation is concerned. But the district police will have to solve the armed burglary case within the deadline. If they fail consequences would follow,” he reiterated.
In regards to the armed burglary case reported in Balawala, SP City Ajay Singh said that police have questioned over 250 suspects in the Balawala area and in some other places. Moreover, police have launched verification drives in the outskirts and penalty is being imposed on the house-owners by the police who fail to show verification certificates of their tenants, he added.
Singh said that teams are working on several angles to solve the case. Police patrolling has been intensified in the city and local police are questioning the suspects as well as reviewing and analysing previous cases to solve the case. Teams which have been deployed at various places, including some districts of western Uttar Pradesh, are still working round the clock to crack it.
Meanwhile, the district Police have arrested four thieves and claimed to have solved many burglary and loot cases reported in the State capital. The police have recovered stolen items from their possession too, claimed Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Rautela while interacting with the media persons on Wednesday.
Cantt police have arrested two thieves — Sahil and Suraj- residents of Kotwali, who had allegedly snatched mobile phone and cash from a pedestrian outside the Doon School on September 9. The duo was on a two-wheeler when they committed the crime, police said.
In regard to this, the complainant Ashif had registered a case under section 392 of IPC in Cantt Police Station. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested both the thieves from Chukkhuwala and the stolen mobile was recovered from their possession on September 17.
In another development, Kotwali police have arrested a thief — Gaurav Kamboj — resident of Indira Colony (Chukkhuwala, Kotwali) from Matawala Bagh area and claimed to have solved the burglary case reported in Bakralwala and lakshman Chowk recently. Police have recovered some stolen times, including, ATM cards, gold ornaments and cash worth Rs7,000, from his possession.
During interrogation, Gaurav Kamboj admitted his offence and said he had been jailed several times for thefts in Kotwali, Dalanwala, Nehru Colony and Cantt police station areas in the past.Bakralwala resident and complainant Ramesh Kannojiya identified his stolen ornaments and thanked the district police for solving the case.