 Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 13: Displaying professionalism and commitment to make the City of Temples free from crime, the Jammu Police, in a big success successfully solved the sensational Gandhi Nagar dacoity case within six days with the arrest of five gangsters who were hiding in the neighbouring Punjab after committing the crime in the posh locality of Jammu city.
Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh while addressing a joint press conference with DIG Vivek Gupta and SSP Jammu Police, Chandan Kohli shared details of how the sensational docity at the residence of prominent businessman Rakesh Aggarwal has solved the case in the shortest possible time. “Out of the total 10 gangsters involved in the dacoity, nine of them were from Punjab and they forced their entry into the house of Rakesh Aggarwal”, he said.
However, when they failed in their efforts as Rakesh Aggarwal dodged them, they did the dacoity and escaped with the cash.
Gangsters from Punjab and Jammu were involved in this sensational robber case.
The ADGP said, “the daylight dacoity of December 7, 2022 has been solved by the Jammu police in which 10 armed men barged into the house of prominent businessman Rakesh Aggarwal at Green Belt Park in Gandhi Nagar and decamped with approximately Rs 12 to 15 lakhs.”
“Working on various leads and technical intelligence gathered during the investigation, the police team was able to identify the locality in Shastri Nagar from where the dacoits started on foot for the commission of the crime. Some more evidence were gathered and one person namely Harjinder Singh s/o Jasvir Singh R/o Badiana, Jallandhar Punjab was arrested yesterday”, police said.
“It transpired during the investigation that the main conspirator is Amit Rana, a resident of Delhi. While following Amit Rana, it was gathered that he was duping people in Jammu by various means. Finally, a lead was gathered regarding his movement in the general area of the marble market Jammu”, police said.
Special teams were constituted to nab the mastermind by the SSP Jammu. “When a team led by SSP Jammu chased Amit Rana, he fired on the police party but he was overpowered and finally nabbed by the brave cops”, the ADGP said.
“During the questioning, he revealed the whole story to the police”, he said.
The police have arrested five dacoits They were identified as Amit Rana alias Harpreet Singh (conman/mastermind of Tarlochan Singh Wazir’s murder), son of Lt Parmjeet Singh, resident of C-35 Hanuman Road Cannaught Place, New Delhi at present 684 in Diagana (Jammu), Harjinder Singh alias Rinku, son of Jasvir Singh, resident of Badyana, Jalandhar in Punjab, Manjeet Singh alias Fouji (Fouji was in main supporting role of Amit Rana), son of Surinder Singh, resident of Ralhan Teshil Dasuya in District Hoshiarpur in Punjab, Raja Singh alias Raja son of Gurdev Singh, resident of Panwah tehsil Dasuya district Hoshiarpur in Punjab, and Pintu.
The police have recovered two pistols, police uniforms of cyber crime which were used to execute the dacoity and approximately Rs 5 lakhs cash was also recovered. |
