Sleuths of Special Task Force (STF) nabbed six persons for selling and manufacturing tempered Gutkha at a house in Madiaon on Sunday.
Those arrested were identified as Dilip Kumar Jaiswal of Gudamba, Guddu Singh Yadav of Kannauj, Balram Gupta of Indira Nagar, Dhwaj Jain of Rajasthan, Jitendra Singh of Hardoi and Kamal Chandra Katiyar of Madiaon. Dilip is prime accused while the factory was being run at a rented house in Madiaon.
The police recovered 1 quintal tobacco, 6 quintal packing rolls of a tobacco brand, huge quantity of raw material, packing machine, sack sewing machine, compress machine, a SUV, 7 mobile phone and Rs 50,000 form the factory. The sleuths got to know from their sources about sale of fake Gutkha and tobacco of famous brands. The sleuths also came to know that the fake Gutkha and tobacco in the name of famous brand had been pumped into the market in a huge quantity. On the directive of their bosses, the cops worked on the case and zeroed in on the factory which was being run in Madiaon.
Dilip owned up his crime and told police that he was in the business for a long period of time and coined the idea to earn fast bucks by supplying fake Gutkha and tobacco cloning the pouches and wrappers of a famous brand. The cops said the recovered goods were of worth Rs 15 lakh. “The miscreants were bleeding the state exchequer by not paying tax to central and state government,’ the sleuths said.
Sleuths of Special Task Force (STF), UP nabbed an active member of infamous Sardar Singh Gujjar’s gang having the notoriety to abduct for ransom in Jhansi on Sunday.The miscreant arrested was identified as Pramod Sahu of Kotwali police station area in Jhansi. The cops recovered a mobile phone, a PAN card, a Voter ID, a driving license and Rs 15,500 from him.
According to police, a BSc student of Agra University, Bhanu Pratap Singh aka Sonu was kidnapped from outside his house in Malpura police station area in Agra on August 4. The kidnappers had demanded Rs 50 lakh as ransom amount.
While working on case, cops smelt role of Gujjar gang and subsequently cops were asked to expedite on this line. later the cops nabbed three miscreants and rescued Sonu on August 16. During interrogation, the miscreants had disclosed the name of Pramod Sahu and the police started his hunt. On Sunday, an informer tipped off police about Pramod’s plan to flee Mumbai by catching a train at Jhansi railway station. A team of STF sleuths fanned around the railway station and nabbed Pramod when he reached there.