Ludhiana: The Ludhiana police busted a criminal gang, which was allegedly involved in several robberies and loot cases. Interestingly, police nabbed six gang members when they were distributing Rs 9 lakh among themselves. They had allegedly looted the money from a
money exchanger.
The arrested members were Avtar Singh of Shimlapuri, Pradeep Kumar of Basant Nagar, Manish Kumar of Barota Road, Gursewak Singh of Daba Road, Anurudh alias Prince of
Barota Road
and
Vivek Kumar
of Shimlapuri.
The gang had looted Rs 20 lakh from money exchanger
Amit Malhotra
on August 2. The miscreants attacked him with sharp-edged weapon and looted the bag of cash from him when he was going on his scooter on Gill Road.
On August 10, the gang attempted to loot the relatives of Amit Malhotra, but they failed in their attempt.
In his complaint, Naresh Malhotra of
Shastri Nagar
claimed he and his son Rohit were going to Model Town to drop his brother
Subhash Chandar
home with a bag of cash when eight miscreants on three motorcycles stopped them near a vacant plot of Model Town. One of the miscreants smashed a brick on the windowpane and tried to snatch the bag, however his son speeded up the car and they managed to escape.
Police commissioner R N Dhoke said Gursewak Singh, Anurudh and Vivek Kumar used to do recce while other three accused used to attack people and loot them.
He said initially one of the group members would go to the money exchanger and would find out details regarding cash available with that person. Then they used to follow the target before carrying out the loot.
Dhoke also told that the gang had planned two more attempts to loot money exchangers.
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