Farmers Movement Archive

4 of gang held with 11-quintal copper at Mandi Gobindgarh

The district police claims to have unearthed a gang involved in the theft of copper at Mandi Gobindgarh with the arrest of four of its members. The police recovered 11 quintals of copper from them whereas four other members of the gang were still at large.Addressing mediapersons, the Fatehgarh Sahib SSP, Amneet Kondal, said five to six looters entered the premises of Swastik Impex Industry at Mandi Gobindgarh and took hostage all the four security persons deployed there. They looted copper from the premises of the industrial unit, the SSP added.Earlier, such thefts were reported from other industries in the town, the SSP said. A special team of the CIA staff led by DSP (Investigation) Raghbir Singh was constituted to crack theft cases, the SSP added.The team succeeded in nabbing four members of the gang identified as Ram Babu, alias Arjun, a resident of Bihar, Sandeep Kumar, alias Sonu, and Deepak Kumar, both residents of the UP, and Jaggi Khan, a resident of Mandi Gobindgarh, the SSP said.The police recovered 11 quintals of copper from them, the SSP added. During preliminary investigation, the suspects revealed that there were eight members in the gang out of which four were at large, the SSP said. They would be arrested soon, the SSP added. With the arrest of these thieves, more theft cases were likely to be solved, the SSP said. They were already facing more than dozen cases of thefts, the SSP added.

The Tribune

2020-09-04