UP Police rescue abducted gangster in Pratapgarh

  • | Thursday | 30th August, 2018

The gang then brought the truck to Pratapgarh and shifted the looted goods to another truck and took it to Gujarat to dispose it off for Rs 26 lakh.However, Sarwan did not share the money with his gang members. As the entire booty was spent, the gang members tortured him with screw driver and beat him black and blue till he was rescued by the police.Pratapgarh police claimed that six to eight cases were registered against each of the gang members in several police stations of the country. When they inquired about the booty, Sarwan kept on making excuses and spent the entire money on expensive luxury items.The SP claimed that Sarwan splurged the booty on an SUV, electronic gadgets, smartphones and spent days in big hotels in big cities.Three days ago, the gang members spotted him near Bhairavpur motor garage and abducted him. ALLAHABAD: The Pratapgarh police on Thursday rescued the leader of an inter-state gang of robbers, who was held captive by his own associates for running away with Rs 26 lakh booty after disposing off looted goods.Besides UP, this gang of robbers and kidnappers is also wanted by the Delhi, Haryana and Gujarat Police in over a dozen cases. The gang has been involved in looting trucks loaded either with electronic goods or precious metals like copper and aluminium across the country.Police said Sonu, Shahrukh, Salman, Shoiab and Naved alias Khuchcha were arrested near Azad Nagar of Pratapgarh district on Thursday morning and the kingpin, identified as Sarwar alias Roshan of Bharauli locality, was rescued from their clutches.“Acting on a tip-off, the police rescued Sarwar and arrested five members of his gang who had kidnapped him from Bhairavpur area on August 27 and also tortured him in captivity due to the dispute over the booty,” said SP (city) Purnendu Singh adding that during investigation.The gang of six men had looted a copper-laden truck near the Delhi border in January this year when it was on its way to Bhavnagar (Gujarat) from Panipat (Haryana).

ALLAHABAD: The Pratapgarh police on Thursday rescued the leader of an inter-state gang of robbers, who was held captive by his own associates for running away with Rs 26 lakh booty after disposing off looted goods.Besides UP, this gang of robbers and kidnappers is also wanted by the Delhi, Haryana and Gujarat Police in over a dozen cases. The gang has been involved in looting trucks loaded either with electronic goods or precious metals like copper and aluminium across the country.Police said Sonu, Shahrukh, Salman, Shoiab and Naved alias Khuchcha were arrested near Azad Nagar of Pratapgarh district on Thursday morning and the kingpin, identified as Sarwar alias Roshan of Bharauli locality, was rescued from their clutches.“Acting on a tip-off, the police rescued Sarwar and arrested five members of his gang who had kidnapped him from Bhairavpur area on August 27 and also tortured him in captivity due to the dispute over the booty,” said SP (city) Purnendu Singh adding that during investigation.The gang of six men had looted a copper-laden truck near the Delhi border in January this year when it was on its way to Bhavnagar (Gujarat) from Panipat (Haryana). The gang then brought the truck to Pratapgarh and shifted the looted goods to another truck and took it to Gujarat to dispose it off for Rs 26 lakh.However, Sarwan did not share the money with his gang members. When they inquired about the booty, Sarwan kept on making excuses and spent the entire money on expensive luxury items.The SP claimed that Sarwan splurged the booty on an SUV, electronic gadgets, smartphones and spent days in big hotels in big cities.Three days ago, the gang members spotted him near Bhairavpur motor garage and abducted him. As the entire booty was spent, the gang members tortured him with screw driver and beat him black and blue till he was rescued by the police.Pratapgarh police claimed that six to eight cases were registered against each of the gang members in several police stations of the country.

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