Dehradun police have successfully arrested two accused of the infamous Cobra Gang from Delhi, who had committed six chain snatching incidents and one theft at gunpoint in Dehradun. One accused of the same group is still absconding.
Police have recovered six gold chains which amounts nearly Rs 3,25,000, one ladies purse and two revolvers. The two wheelers, one motorcycle plus without number plate and one scooty without number plate was also recovered from the accused.
Speaking with media on Monday, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Nivedita Kukreti said, “They planning to sold these chains and dress up like Kanwadias in Haridwar.
They have done petty crimes in Delhi, where they are known as Cobra gang and Rajasthan. They tried to sell the looted chains the Delhi, but the jewellers their started asking for details of purchase which they could not give, so they came back to Haridwar and we caught them.
The combined efforts of teams are commendable.” According to the information provided by the police, in the seven cases registered in total at Rishikesh police station, Raipur police station and Vasant Vihar police have arrested Mohammad Linton aka Hansmukh (22), Mohammad Anwar aka Bihari (24), both have criminal records in Delhi and Rajasthan respectively. The accused on run is Mohammad Arshad.
Nearly 300 footages of CCTV cameras installed at the crime scene and surrounding were checked. Fifty-eight vehicles were checked without number plates and the actions were taken as per the rules of Motor Vehicles act.
On Monday, the teams on a lead were checking the vehicles when two two-wheelers without number plates were coming from Roorkee to Kaliyar.
When they saw police in uniform they tried to take a U-turn, but while doing so fell and were caught. During the interrogation, the accused said that in order to avoid suspicion, they used to change clothes after committing the crime. Also, when the crime was done with scooty, two people on the motorbike used to go to reconnaissance ahead.
They used to take the number plates off before committing crime and at the time of checking put it back, mostly the numbers on both the number plates were similar. There third partner used to work in Dehradun before and was familiar with the colonies and other places.
According to the sources, one of the accused is not Indian, he hails from border areas of Western Bengal where many immigrants from Bangladesh are rumoured to have taken shelter.