The Gurugram police in the first 10 months of the year have dismantled around 50 gangs involved in several organised crimes.
According to the police these gangs were specialized in murder, vehicle lifting, robbery, snatching and theft cops have also made a recoveries of around Rs 1.27 crores from their possessions.
Police have arrested 125 members of various gangs and detected around 212 cases. Out of the 50 gangs, 18 gangs were involved in vehicle lifting and police have recovered around Rs 46 lakh from their possessions.
From the starting of the year multiple crime branch units of the Gurugram police started to keep an eye on these gangs and with joint efforts of the police station teams and crime branch units these gangs were nabbed.
“The cracking of so many gangs will surely help in curbing crime volume in Gurugram. This is a routine process and teams of crime branch will keep on tracking the bursting of such gangs,” said ACP (crime) Preet Pal Sangwan.
According to senior police officials they had prepared a list of 40 wanted criminals of the Gurugram district and majority of them have been behind the bars.
Notably, The Gurugram police had arrested one of the most wanted gangsters Kaushal in the previous year and since then multiple members of Kaushal’s gang were arrested. According to police many criminals from adjoining states are also active in the region.
“As the Indian Premier League (IPL) is going, the city police have also busted several punters and gang members who were actively involved in IPL betting,” said officer, adding that till now they have managed to nab 40 people engaged in betting.
Apart from these the crime branch units have also managed to arrest more than ten members of the Sube gang after an encounter.
Recently the police had nabbed two members of the Sube gang in which two police personnel had also received bullet injuries. In this incident police had recovered huge firearms from their possession.
Furthermore, the police have managed to bust 18 gangs of vehicles lifted in this year and arrested 39 of its members. Similarly around 10 gangs involved in theft were busted and 23 of its members were nabbed. Nine gangs engaged in snatching were also busted and 22 of its members were arrested.