A day after Dehradun police had arrested three of the six accused of the attempted robbery that happened at a house located at Indraprashat in the Nehru Colony area of the city on June 25, the rest of the three fugitives were arrested from IIP Gate on Saturday. The house where the failed robbery attempt was made belongs to Vishnu Nautiyal who is a coordinator of Mahant Indresh Hospital. The trio which has been arrested on Saturday are identified as Akash, Shobhit and Kaushal, all natives of Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Police recovered a pistol and four cartridges from Akash and one knife each from Kaushal and Shobhit.
SP City PK Rai claimed to have cracked the case by bringing to book all the six criminals involved in the crime. “The six members of the gang were arrested when they had come back to Dehradun to commit another robbery. The trio which has been arrested on Saturday had hatched a plan to escape from Uttarakhand after three members of the gang were arrested on Friday,” he added.
Earlier, acting on a tip- off, the police teams had arrested three criminals - Anurudh Tiwari alias Chhotu Tiwari, native of Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh, Mantosh, native of Muzaffarpur, Bihar and Rahul, resident of Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh from Chandrabani Enclave, Badripur on Thursday/Friday night. Anurudh Tiwari is believed to be the leader of the gang.
Interrogation of the three accused arrested on Friday had revealed that the criminals had intended to kidnap the son of Nautiyal to demand extortion of around Rs30 lakh from his father. The trio which was arrested on Saturday is being grilled now to get more information about the gang, said police.