The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttarakhand has arrested a inter-state gangster who was allegedly involved in several robbery cases in Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Incidentally, the arrested Jasvinder is involved in the Jhabba lal Jewellers robbery case in Dehradun in the year 2004 and in the sensational attempt to help dreaded gangster Angrez Singh escape from the police custody by snatching the weapon of policemen in the year 2006.
A STF communique said that Udham Singh Nagar resident Jasvinder alias Jassa was arrested by a combined team of US Nagar police and STF on November 5 near his village. During interrogation he accepted his involvement in the armed robbery in a jewelry shop in the Adilabad town of Telengana on 27 September 2014.
The STF was working on a lead that Mukhtiyar Singh a member of the notorious Angrej Singh gang has regrouped the erstwhile members of his gang after his release from Roorkee jail. A special police team was constituted to keep an eye on the activities of the gang. The team got information that one of the members of the gang Jagtar Singh has lead daring robbery on a jewelry shop in Adilabad and one of his accomplices Jasvinder would soon arrive to take his claim of the booty in US Nagar. The team laid a trap and arrested Jasvinder and on interrogation he accepted his involvement in the robbery in the jeweler shop in Adilabad. He disclosed that Jagtar Singh, Bittu a resident of New Delhi, Satnam of US Nagar, Mangat of lakhimpur and Nikku of Bijnor were involved in the heist. The group undertook an extensive two day recce of the shop and executed the robbery. He revealed that it was decided that the distribution of the money among the gang would occur after selling the looted jewelry.
The Adilabad police confirmed about the robbery and FIR number 201/2014 is registered at Adilabad town police station 01 in this regard.The Adilabad police would now take the culprit on the transit remand.The STF team included Sub Inspector Amar Chand Sharma, SI Sanjay Mishra, Constables Mahendra Singh, Ved Prakash, Ashish Sharma.