Our Correspondent Tarn Taran March 14 The police on Saturday booked five persons including three of a family for snatching Rs 6.45 lakh from a Ludhiana-based person who had come to their residence for purchasing an SUV from them. Three accused identified as Veera Sharma her sons Lalit Kumar and Munish Kumar are residents of the local Guru Tegh Bahadur Nagar locality. The victim Harshinder Singh informed the city police that he had come to their residence for purchasing an SUV (Innova) and had brought Rs 6.45 lakh for paying them. He said his cash was snatched by two accused Lalit Kumar and Munish Kumar who disappeared from the spot. He said there were two more persons present there at the time of the incident. He said when he demanded the keys of the vehicle from Veera Sharma she threatened to put his vulgar video on social media. The police have registered a case under Section 379-B of the IPC against all the five accused including two unidentified accomplices. The family has eight such criminal cases registered against them. Their modus operandi is they call an innocent person to their home and make a vulgar video to blackmail him. Old machinery stolen from canal stores An old machinery of the canal system kept in the stores of the Canal Office at Rasulpur village here was stolen in the wee hours on Sunday. Residents of nearby houses said many persons came to the spot and loaded the iron machinery on to a truck and went away. The residents said some heavy parts of the machinery could not be loaded on to the truck and the miscreants left that on the way.

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