Uttarakhand police have arrested a person here on Tuesday who was allegedly involved in several crimes in Chhattisgarh.
The Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dehradun, Nivedita Kukreti, on receipt of a letter from the SSP of Bilaspur in Chattishgarh about the presence of a criminal Amit Singh Thakur alias Babla in Dehradun, asked the senior inspector Ashok Rathore posted at Kotwali police station to arrest the fugitive.
Meanwhile, a police team consisting of district police of Bilaspur and cyber crime cell of the district also arrived in Dehradun from Chattisgarh. On the information provided by them, a team of Dehradun police arrested Thakur from a lane near the Jain Dharamshala here on Tuesday.
The arrested person on interrogation confessed his involvement in a number of crimes like duping people on the pretext of giving them high interest on loaned money and extortion.