Amazing it may sound but a truck loaded with 20 tons of ‘Arhar dal’ was looted by four miscreants on a SUV fitted with a blue beacon in Azamgarh on Monday evening. The miscreants drugged the driver and the cleaner before fleeing with the booty. This is the first incident of the ‘expensive’ pulse being looted.
As per reports,. a truck (CG07AU 7486) loaded with 20 tons of pulse, valued at over Rs 27 lakh, was intercepted by four youths travelling in a a Scorpio jeep at Thekma in Gambhirpur area of Azamgarh on Sunday evening.
The miscreants later drugged driver Ram Janam of Raunapar (Azamgarh) and cleaner Dayashankar. They then dumped the victims at Basihara area of Azamgarh and fled with the booty. When the victims regained conscious at night, they informed truck owner Suryabhan Yadav who later lodged a report with the local police.
Meanwhile in Etah, two police constables allegedly robbed a contractor of Rs 40,000 on Sunday. Contractor Pappu of Basaria village in Hardoi had gone to the brick-kiln in Gadua village of Pilua police station on Sunday.
“He was returning after taking Rs 40,000 from the brick-kiln owner when he was stopped by two bike-borne cops in Etah for ‘checking’. Telling him to accompany them to the police station, the cops boarded the tempo he was travelling in. During t he travel, the cops deprived Pappu of the cash before deboarding near Shikohabad Road. later, Pappu and the brick-kiln owner reached Etah city police station, where an FIR was lodged against unknown cops. No arrests could be made till late Tuesday evening.