The West wing of Special Task Force (STF) claimed to have nabbed the king pin of cash robbing gang active in Madhya Pradesh during an encounter with him. The miscreant arrested was identified as Asrar aka Tinna of Alapur police station area of Badayun district. The police recovered a country made pistol, four live cartridges, a shell, a mobile phone several documents and cash of Rs 2700 from his possession.
Giving details, IG STF, Sujit Pandey said Asrar ran the gang which had an expertise in robbing off cash cutting lockers and ATMs and he was carrying a reward on his name from the Madhya Pradesh government. Pandey said Asrar came on police radar when the sleuths were collecting information about the miscreants to initiate a preventive action against them. “In the process, the sleuths were tipped off that Asrar was to visit a place near Hanuman temple in Bareilly district. The cops laid a trap and when the miscreant reached the scene he was surrounded from all side. He was asked to surrender but he opened fire. The cops used firepower and nabbed him,” the IG said.
Asrar told that he was to move to Uttarakhand but was nabbed on the way. He disclosed the names of his aides as laek Ali, Sakir, Firasat, Phool Miyan, Zahir, Sakir, Israr, Hannan and Chand Babu, all of Badayun district. He owned that he and his aides used gas cutters to break the ATM and lockers during robbery. He disclosed that some his aides and his mentor in Madhya Pradesh was nabbed in the recent past and he was absconding. The miscreant disclosed to have committed seven robberies in the past out of which robbery at State Bank of India in Bankhedi locality of Madhya Pradesh they had looted Rs 56 lakh and gold ornaments of worth Rs 9 lakh. The police are further interrogating the miscreant.