The Ghaziabad police busted a gang of 10 robbers, two of them national players of kabaddi (under-19 category), who after robbing passengers in the upper Ganga Canal area, bought whisky and swim in the canal for recreation.
Police have recovered 10 vehicles stolen by the gang and confiscated four mobile phones, fire-arms including an foreign made pistol and seven country made pistols along with live cartridges and jewelry from the possession of accused.
Ghaziabad SSP Vaibhav Krishna said an all out drive was launched by the Niwari Police and the 10 robbers, who were member of the same gang, were apprehended. According to police, the accused have confessed to their crimes and enabled police to recover 10 motorbikes of different brands, some jewellery and fire-arms including country made and English pistol along with live cartridges from their possession.
The accused are identified as Ravi Kumar and Harsh Chaudhary of Meerut, Kalkal alias Akash a resident of Modi Nagar, Prashant and Sumit both residents of Sikrod of Ghaziabad and both had participated in the national game of Kabaddi in category under 19.
Vikas Tyagi , Nikhil and Ashu Chaudhary all three residents of Sardhana in Meerut . Nikhil and Ashu were students of BTech and llB. Harsh a resident of Sikrod and Rahis a resident of Sardhana.
"They confessed that they were active in Meerut and Ghaziabad in upper Ganges canal area. They used to rob the passengers bought whiskey and enjoyed in swimming in upper Ganges canal. They used to have meal on road side Dhabas" said SSP Vaibhav Krishna.