The Udham Singh Nagar police have arrested two hardcore inter-state criminals from lalpul, Rameshwarpur Road, Rudrapur and recovered four pistols, seven ATM cards of various banks, 20 mobile phones and other items from their possession on Friday. The accused have been identified as 23-year- old Rajesh, native of Murena, Madhya Pradesh and 45-year-old Pritam, native of Gujarat.
Over 50 cases of various offences like bank loot, dacoity, burglary and murders were registered in various police stations of several States, said Udham Singh Nagar SSP Nilesh Anand Bharne. These criminals had absconded from Gujarat after committing several crimes there. Gujarat police were searching these absconders over the past two years. The police officer said these criminals were running a gang involved in committing crimes, including dacoity, bank loot, burglary, murders and other offences in Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab, UP, Karnataka, MP, Gujarat and other States.
The police from the Gujarat Crime Branch had approached the Udham Singh Nagar Police to arrest the duo who had hidden themselves in Rudrapur, Udham Singh Nagar and against whom a case (FIR number-434/13) under Sections 302, 392, 397 and 120b of IPC in the Police Station, Ahmadabad City has been pending. A team headed by Additional SP TD Vaila formed and teams began searching the accused.
Police received a tip-off about these two criminals roaming around Rameshwarpur Road in lalpul area, Rudrapur. The joint teams of Gujarat and Udham Singh Nagar acted on the tip- off and arrested the accused. In the course of interrogation, the accused confessed that they were operating a gang and committing crimes in various States. They also disclosed the names of other gang members.
One of them is Vishal, a native of Gujarat who had escaped from Gwalior jail (Madhya Pradesh) upon whom Gujarat police had announced a bounty of Rs 10 lakh. Another was Ajay Puri, a native of Gujarat who had escaped from the police custody while being produced in Murena court. The name of the third gang member was Vijendra, native of Gujarat who is now in Gujarat jail.
The members of the gang were fluent in various Indian languages like Gujarati, Kannar, Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi, English, Rajasthani and some others, the police officer added. According to SSP, two gang members named Vishal and Ajay Puri were also arrested by Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) police on Friday.