Claiming success for solving crimes in 2016, State police spokesperson additional director general of police (law and order) Ram Singh Meena said on Wednesday that they had cracked all the 18 dacoity cases reported from five districts-Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar, Bageshwar and Nainital- in 2016 and arrested around 88 per cent of the accused. Besides, according to him, around 62 per cent of the stole items were recovered from the accused.
Meena said that DGP MA Ganapathy had directed district police chiefs through video conferencing to check crimes, maintain law and order and prevent dacoity- like heinous crimes aside from stressing on them being cracked promptly. “The direction has started paying dividends now,” he said.
Meena said that police had recovered ornaments, cash, four- wheelers, two- wheelers, e-rickshaws and licensed guns from the possession of the dacoits police arrested.
While two incidents of dacoity were reported from Vikasnagar and Sahaspur in Dehradun the figure was four from Haridwar district. At Ranipur in Haridwar, a dacoity was committed at a cosmetic factory and 58 bottles of perfume spray were looted. laptops, mobiles and cash were looted from a private limited company in SIIDCUl industrial area, Haridwar. At Pathri police station area, licensed gun, cartridges and cash were looted. A vehicle was looted in Bahadrabad.
Four dacoity cases were reported in Nainital district. At Ramnagar area, jewellery, licensed gun, cash were looted after the miscreants confined the family members in a room. In Udham Singh Nagar, seven dacoity cases were reported.
One case of dacoity was reported from Bageshwar where criminals had looted several traders during Uttranayani Mela.