To collect money and goods for the marriage of their friend, four thieves of western Uttar Pradesh drove a car to Dehradun and burgled an electronic shop located adjacent to Nainital Bank, Shimla Bypass, in the busy market area under Patelnagar police station on September 21 night. They looted computers, TV sets and other goods worth lakhs and fled. This was revealed when police arrested four criminals on Monday.
Addressing the media, Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Rautela claimed to have solved two burglary cases by arresting four criminals. The arrested have been identified as Mobin, Mohammad Azad, Zulifkar Saif and Mohammad Shoaib, natives of Western Uttar Pradesh. Police have recovered stolen items from them.
Rautela said a theft was reported on September 21 at Sunny Electronics showroom and on September 22, another theft was reported from a closed house of Tarun under Patelnagar Police Station area. Teams were formed and deployed at various places to solve these cases. Finally four criminals were arrested.
During interrogation, one of the thieves said that they had planned to burgle some houses in Dehradun to collect money and goods for Mohammad Azad’s marriage. The accused had rented a car from another miscreant who used to provide vehicles for committing crimes. They were using different registration numbers on their vehicle. These thieves had committed crimes as per the scripted plan without a hitch.
Police received a tip- off about some criminals roaming around Chandrabani crossing area, Saharanpur Road on Monday. Acting on it, barricade was put up in the Chandrabani area. Police saw some persons moving around in an Innova. The driver was asked to park the car on the left side of the road. Finding police shadowing them, the driver tried to flee. The three persons who were seated in the car failed to answer the police satisfactorily. Finally, police arrested the four, including the driver. Police recovered stolen items, including lED, laptop, music system, tablets, 19 mobile phones, gold ornaments and statues, worth lakhs.
These criminals were involved in several theft cases in loni, Ghaziabad, Agra (Uttar Pradesh) and Panipat (Haryana). They had been jailed many a time in the past, Rautela said. The impounded Innova had a genuine registered plate number from New Delhi and police are working on this, he added.
