Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Jan 10: The Police has achieved a big success by busting a gang of thieves operating in and around Rajouri town and have recovered stolen property worth lakhs of rupees from them.
Senior Superintendent of Police Rajouri, Yougal Manhas said that an investigation team headed by Station House Officer Rajouri, Sameer Jillani under the supervision of Deputy SP Headquarters, Surinder Khadyal while investigating different cases of thefts, registered in Rajouri police station managed to co-relate the nature of theft which gave an idea that a single gang or it’s members are involved in the incidents.
SSP Rajouri said that during probe several suspects were put to questioning by police whereas, different kinds of human as well as digital intelligence were also collected based on which police finally managed to identify six thieves who were running a gang and were suspected to be involved in all the incidents.
“During raids and special night nakas conducted by joint teams of police all the six thieves were nabbed and put to questioning who confessed their involvement in the cases of thefts here during last an year,” SSP further said.
He said that the accused have been identified as Zaheer Abbas @Billa, son of Mohammad Latif, resident of Chingus Rajouri; Balbir Singh, son of Sukhchain Singh, resident of Dhanidhar Rajouri; Muzaffar Hussain, son of Mohammad Rashid, resident of Dhanidhar Rajouri; Mohammed Shadab, son of Raj Mohammad, resident of Jawahar Nagar Rajouri; Tariq Aziz, son of Mohammad Makhna, resident of Jawahar Nagar Rajouri and Baldev Jha, son of Kamlesh Jha, resident Bihar, at present Salani bridge area of Rajouri.
Manhas further disclosed that after busting of gang of thieves and arrest of all the six thieves, police have succeeded in solving seven cases of thefts which were committed by these accused.
These cases include case FIRs 12/2020, 14/2020, 16/2020, 744/2019, 17/2020, 18/2020 and FIR No. 19/2020 . SSP added that so far 31 Mobile phones, one Laptop, one Camera, one speaker and three motorcycles have been recovered from the possession of accused persons. Further investigation was in progress.
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