The Ghaziabad Police arrested a wanted criminal in case of robbery in which he along with his accomplices looted Maruti showroom on March 13, 2017 owned by the kin of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala.
SP City Akash Tomar, in a Press conference said that during extensive checking of vehicles on Friday night near Rajnagar Extension, police nabbed a suspect.
On his confession, the police recovered Rs 97,000/- cash, a pistol of .30 calibre, two live cartridges and a gypsy vehicle which they drove out along with them.
The criminal during interrogation revealed his identity as Shahnawaz, a resident of Muzaffarnagar. During screening his criminal record he was found involved in over a dozen criminal cases of heinous nature in Muzaffarnagar police stations.
Earlier, he along with his seven to eight unidentified armed robbers looted cash worth over Rs 15 lakh and a gipsy jeep from the Maruti showroom-Regent Enterprises owned by the kins of Haryana's former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala.
Bhairav Ghosh, the manager of the show room lodged a complaint on which the police was working. The criminals kept the security guards hostage on gun point and fled the spot of crime after taking away the cash box containing the cash of Rs 15 lakh in the company's gypsy jeep.
They tied security guards with cord and fled with the cash and the company's vehicle.
"The Sihani Gate police and the crime branch have done a good job. His accomplices are still at large. I expect that the police would bring them in to net soon" said SP City Akash Tomar.