The Uttarakhand police special task force (STF) has arrested two hardened criminals from Gurugram in Haryana. The duo has been identified as Avnish Bansal and his wife Bharti Bansal, said State STF senior superintendent of police P Renuka Devi on Wednesday, adding that police had earlier announced cash rewards of Rs 5, 000 for information leading to the arrest of Avnish Bansal.
Renuka said that the accused Avnish Bansal, resident of Harrawala, was currently residing at Badshahpur, in Gurugram district, Haryana. Both were arrested from the same place by the team comprising STF sub-inspector Santosh Kumar Shah, STF constables- Hemant Puri, Virendra Nautiyal, Sandesh Yadav, Shankar Negi and sub-inspector Narotam Bisht.
She said that cases against the accused had been registered by Shashi Kumar, resident of Bahadrabad, Haridwar and Sunil Kumar lakhera, resident of Engineers Enclave, Dehradun. They had stated in their complaint that the accused had duped them of Rs 16 lakh each on the pretext of selling residential lands.
Regarding the same issue, cases (211/16, 219/16) were registered under sections 420/467/468/471/120b/506 o f IPC against the duo in Patelnagar police station.