City Police on Thursday cracked a robbery case and recovered all the items looted by the robbers. The robbery was attempted in Suman Nagar area under Ranipur police station on February 24 when around six miscreants barged into the house of one Nikunj Kumar to commit theft.
However, Nikunj showed spunk to take on the miscreants. He was injured in the tussle with the thieves. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested all the accused from near Suman Nagar area where they were supposedly planning to commit another theft. During interrogation, they confessed having committed the loot on February 24.
Several items looted that night were recovered from them. The itmes include one Samsung tablet, two mobile phones, one rado wrist watch, one pair of golden bangles and two country made pistol of 315 and 12 bore. Four motorcycles were also recovered from their possession which they had lifted from different locations across the district.
SP City Surjit Singh Pawar praised the team for cracking the case. The accused were identifies as Rajat Sharma, Satish Kumar of Bhaurkalan of Muzzafarnagar of UP, Nayeem of Bhadrabad under Haridwar district, Subham and Rakesh of Sidcul Haridwar, Sonu of Sikedha, Muzzafarnagar, Asif of Ranipur, Haridwar and Haridas of Pathri, Haridwar. Subham is the master- mind of the group. All of them are of age between 21 to 25 years, police said.
Police recovered looted items in regards to another incident that occurred on January 4 at Shyampur where some unidentified youths had looted 24 quintals of wire cable from the store yard of Bhattipur Electricity Department worth lakhs. SP City Surjit Singh Pawar, CO Sadar Rajesh Bhatt and CO Khankhal Manisha Joshi informed the recoveries. SSP Haridwar announced rewards of Rs2,500 each for both the teams for achieving breakthroughs.