Ghaziabad,

11 July (HS): SWAT team crime and

Indirapuram police station arrested three criminals during an encounter on Friday.

The accused broke the shutter of watch showroom Sai Creation

located in front of Jaipuria Mughal in Indirapuram area on the night of August 10

last year and stole the valuable watches kept in the showroom. Two criminals

got injured in the encounter. The injured have been admitted to the hospital

for treatment. These three criminals were absconding since the incident. There

was a reward of Rs. 50,000 on the arrest of one of these criminals.

02

illegal pistols, 02 empty cartridges, 02 live cartridges, 01 illegal knife and

01 watch stolen from Sai Creation showroom were recovered from their

possession. DCP Trans Hindon Nimish Dashrath Patil said that the police was

checking. Then, in connection with the information about three criminals

standing near Kanavani bridge planning to commit a theft, on going to the spot,

they heard the conversation of the three persons among themselves. The three

persons were planning to commit a theft in a big showroom in Indirapuram area.

The police team tried to surround and catch the three persons with the

intention of stopping the criminal incident to be committed by them. Seeing

themselves surrounded by the police, two persons took out pistols and fired

directly at the police team with the intention of saving themselves. Due to

which the police personnel present there narrowly escaped.

The police party

showed indomitable courage and fired in self-defense. In which two accused got

injured after being shot in the leg and the third of them started running to

save himself. Both the injured criminals were caught and the third accused who

was running away was arrested from near the incident spot. Injured Deepak

Kumar, resident of Veerta Chowk Ghodasahan, Police Station Ghodasahan and Siraj

Mian, son of Jikurla Mian, resident of Veerta Chowk Ghodasahan, Police Station

Ghodasahan, District East Champaran, Motihari, Bihar were arrested during the

encounter.

Karan

Kumar was arrested with a knife. Deepak was wanted in a theft case from

Indirapuram police station. A reward of Rs. 50,000 has been announced for his

arrest. On interrogation, the arrested accused told that the three along with

their other companions break the shutters of shops and commit theft in big watch/mobile

phone showrooms and sell the stolen goods. They have an organized gang. Today,

they had again gathered in Indirapuram area with the intention of doing recce

and committing theft.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi