In an major breakthrough, Nainital police arrested six persons on Wednesday who had allegedly looted ornaments worth lakhs of rupees and cash from a house after confining its owner and other family members in a room at gunpoint in the broad daylight at Haldwani on June 17.
Nainital SSP Sweety Aggarwal said that the accused have been identified as Ashish Kumar, resident of Kichchha (Udham Singh Nagar), Asfaq alias Kundan, native of Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), Amit Kumar, resident of Kichchha, Dharmendra, Pankaj Singh and Rashid Ali, natives of Rampur.
She said that several teams had been formed at police station level to crack this case. CCTV footages of the area (two kilometers) had been reviewed by the team members through which they had got someclues related to the case, she added. Team members had earlier drafted sketches of the accused. They were deployed at various places like Rampur, Moradabad, Chandausi and Udham Singh Nagar to crack the case. Dozens of suspects were questioned too.
Police received a tip-off about six persons in a car coming towards Mandi, Haldwani Nainital to commit crimes. Acting on it, police conducted vehicle checking drives in the area. Team succeeded in arresting the accused. The accused are reported to have confessed that they had committed the crime. Based on the information provided by them, the team members had recovered stolen gold items from their possession.
The robbery had occurred in the house of Mohan Chandra Sharma, assistant engineer of Public Works Department (PWD), located at Tulsinagar in Haldwnai. The criminals had entered the house by identifying themselves as private company representatives who had come to give them gifts. later, brandishing a gun, they had asked Mohan Chandra Sharma and his family members not to raise hue and cry. The criminals had confined Sharma and his wife in a room. Their hands had been tied with ropes.
They had looted cashes worth Rs20,000 aside from ornaments worth lakhs of rupees. Sharma had earlier registered a complaint and a case under sections 392/506 was registered against unidentified persons in the Haldwani police station. Based on interrogation of accused report and investigation report, sections 395/397 of IPC were added to the existing FIR.