Haridwar police has arrested gangster Mehtab from Haridwar railway station and recovered a pistol and three cartridges from his possession on Wednesday. Haridwar Police had earlier announced a bounty of Rs2500 for information leading to his arrest. Along with other criminals, Mehtab committed a dacoity at a Haridwar-based nursing home in 2013.
On August 14, 2013, around 10 unidentified criminals had committed a dacoity in Santosh Nursing Home/House. The owner of the private facility, Dr Heena Khare, had informed the Gangnahar Police about the incident. The police acted swiftly and two policemen - Sunit Negi and Vishan from Gangnahar- reached the spot. Seeing the policemen, criminals tried to flee through the back door of the facility. However, Sunit caught one of them. To help him escape, another criminal fired a bullet on Sunit and he escaped after snatching the police rifle from Sunit.
The bleeding Sunit was rushed to a local government hospital, where he was declared brought dead. A case under appropriate sections of IPC was registered against eight criminals in Gangnahar police station. The police officer formed teams and began searching the criminals. On August 21, 2013, acting on a tip off, police arrested three criminals- Kuldeep and lalit, both residents of Jhabreda (Haridwar) and Suresh Thakur, a native of Shamli (Uttar Pradesh). Interrogation revealed that Asif, Afzal alias lara, Maruf, Mehtab and Zulfkar natives of Devband, Saharanpur and Ashok and Sanjay, natives of Ghaziabad were involved in the dacoity.