Ghaziabad,

17 July (HS): Three criminals who looted lakhs of rupees from a grocery

businessman in Indirapuram police station area at gunpoint were arrested by

SWAT team Trans Hindon Zone and Indirapuram police station during an encounter

on Wednesday night. Two criminals were injured by police bullets in this

encounter. Two days ago, they had looted a bag full of lakhs of rupees from

Pravesh Vishnoi, a scooter rider, by keeping a gun on his temple on Pushta Road

going from Kanawani to Hindon Barrage. Police have recovered 02 illegal

pistols, 02 empty cartridges, 02 live cartridges, Rs. 5 lakh cash related to

the robbery incident and 01 motorcycle used in the incident from the possession

of the criminals.

ACP

Abhishek Shrivastava said that SWAT team Trans Hindon Zone and police team of

Indirapuram police station were checking to prevent incidents of robbery in

Indirapuram police station area. Then police signaled 03 suspicious youths

riding a motorcycle coming from railway line underpass near Vasundhara T Point

Green Belt to stop, but the three youths riding the motorcycle did not stop and

turned the motorcycle sharply and started running towards Vasundhara Sector 2A

on the forest road. When police chased the motorcycle, both the persons sitting

behind on the motorcycle threatened the chasing police party by waving pistols

in their hands and said that if they tried to catch us, they will kill us. On

this, the police party challenged and asked the youths riding the motorcycle to

surrender while surrounding them, and then in the hurry and haste of running

away, the motorcycle slipped and fell. After this, police surrounded the three

miscreants. Seeing themselves surrounded, the miscreants opened fire on the

police. The police also retaliated. In which the miscreants Mukul, resident of

Rahul flour mill near Bhimnagar police station crossing republic and Surendra

resident of Nat Madhiya near Lever Chowk roundabout police station Beta 2

district Gautam Buddha were injured. The police also caught the third miscreant

Akash, resident of Nat Madhiya near Lever Chowk roundabout police station Beta

2, who was trying to escape.

During

police interrogation, Mukul told that on the night of July 14, he had looted a

huge amount of money from a scooter rider Pravesh Vishnoi on Pushta Road going

from Kanawani to Hindon Barrage. Some other colleagues were also involved in

this incident who were doing recce of Pravesh Vishnoi on different routes. I

and Nitesh work at Pravesh Vishnoi's grocery shop in Cloud 9 Society in

Kanawani. We had told our other colleagues involved in this incident that

Pravesh Vishnoi was carrying a huge amount of cash. The Rs. 5 lakh recovered

from our possession is the money from that robbery incident.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi