BATALA: In a major breakthrough, the Batala police claimed to have arrested two of the six robbers allegedly involved in robbery at Jewellers house on April 4 and recovered 1046 grams gold and silver ornaments, one .12 bore pistol and two alive cartridge from their possession.
SSP, Batala, Gurkirpal Singh, in a press conference here today told that on April 4, a robbery was reported in the house of Aman Luthra resident of Basent Avenue, where six unidentified persons robbed 6 kg gold and 20 kg silver ornaments.
On the basis of the information provided by victim, Mamta Luthra, who was present in the house during the time of robbery, the police registered a case under section 454, 382, 506, 342, 148, 149 IPC and 25/27/54/59 Arms act against unidentified persons.
Seeing a huge robbery, DIG, border Range, Ram Singh, constituted a special investigating team under SSP, Batala, Gurkirpal Singh to solve this robbery case.
During investigation, the police found that few days back, six unidentified persons attempted a robbery at Silver Estate Amritsar but failed. Though the colony members had installed CCTV camera’s in the colony and the CCTV footage of those six persons was brought from Amritsar and was shown to Mamta Luthra, who identified them.
Later, seven different teams headed by DSP’s and SHO’s were dispatched to Amritsar and other places to locate the accused and today morning DSP(Rural) Manvinder Singh got a tip-off that two of the accused involved in this robbery were coming to Batala from Mehta and subsequently, police teams under SHO(City) Baldev Singh, CIA Incharge, Naurang Singh, SHO(civil lines) Balwinder Singh laid naka all around the city and nabbed two motorcyclists near Hizara park, who were identified as Jasbir Singh alias Lucky resident of Amritsar and Parminder Singh alias Deepu resident of Batala.
The police recovered 1045 grams gold and silver ornaments from their possession, which was later on identified by victim.
SSP further told that rest of the four accused, who were absconding yet, were also identified by the police and will be arrested soon.