Khanna August 18, 2018: Khanna Dist. Police claimed to have busted an inter state gang of thieves involved in about 36 robberies and had arrested 7 gang members including king pin along with stolen items worth of more than 1 crore and 8 lakh in cash. This gang was active in different Districts of Punjab where it committed more than 28 robberies and the gang committed 8 robberies in Haryana. SSP Khanna Dhruv Dahiya gave information that a police party of Khanna Dist. Police led by SP(I) Khanna Jsvir Singh and DSP(I) Khanna JS Cheema along with other police officials and police personal had laid a naka near Jagera bridge on secret information. During naka the police party intercepted a Truck and a Canter coming from Ludhiana. As per SSP four persons including Nirmal Singh a resident of Shabdalpur Dist. Patiala, Gopal Singh resident of Ghumana Chowk near Sudhar, Hira Singh a resident of Dhaipai in dist. Gurdaspur at present residing at Barnala, Jaswinder Singh a resident of Ludhiana who were sitting in Truck and three were sitting in Canter identified as Surjit Singh driver and a resident of Shabdalpur , Gurnam Singh a resident of Neeh Singh in Dist. Karnal in Haryana and Chamkaur Singh a resident of village Andlu Dist. Ludhiana. During search of the vehicles the police party recovered 140 bags of wheat, 440 cases of pesticides while the police party recovered 13 LCD.S, 4 microwaves, 13 washing machines and 10 Refrigerators from the Canter. SSP said that on the questioning of the alleged arrested persons the police recovered 8 lakh in cash and a stolen Bolero Jeep from their possession. As per SSP the truck and Canter recovered from the alleged accused were also stolen and they were using these vehicles for thefts in at different places.
SSP said that as per perliminary investigation this gang was active since 2010 and Nirmal Singh was king pin of this gang. As per SSP this gang had committed 7 robberies in Ludhiana Dist, 2 robberies in Gurdaspur, 5 in Patiala, 2 in Hoshiarpur, 2 in Jalandhar, 5 in Barnala, 3 in Amritsar , 1 in Mansa , 1 in Moga District and 8 in Haryana including one in Khanna also. SSP stated that the gang members admitted a major theft at Lucky TV Centre Khanna comprising of 7 LCD’S, 15 Washing machnies, 5 AC’’s, 2 TV’s and 2 Geysers. SSP said that a case under section 379-B, 411, 413, 473 IPC had been registered at Police Station Maloud and the arrested will be presented in a court tomorrow for further legal action in this regard.
SSP stated about the modus operandi of the gang that the gang members had close ties with each other and are even related to each other. SSP said that gang leader Nirmal Singh and others had a crminal record and a number of cases are already pending against them at different places. SSP gave information that the gang members strike at any shop after reiki and later they decamped with most of the valuables from the shops by putting items in vehicles. SSP further stated that Nirmal Singh had not married but was stying as living in relation with two women at Sudhar. SSP said that the arrested one Gopal Singh alias Bunty is step son of kingpin Nirmal Singh while Surjeet Singh is cousin brother of main accused Nirmal Singh. SSP said that they will inform the police of other places to verify about more thefts at different places committed by this gang.