Used to rob bike riders, accused arrested
Hapur. Pilkhuwa Kotwali police of Hapur district of UP busted the incident of robbery with a vegetable market trader within a few hours. Police have arrested two robbers involved in the incident. A criminal involved in the incident is absconding. Whom the police is searching for. Disclosing this, SP Abhishek Verma said that Pilkhuwa Kotwali police had received information on January 13 that three miscreants had kicked the bike rider Lokesh Saini and made him fall. The miscreants snatched his bag at pistol point and ran away. As soon as the police received this information, CO Pilkhuwa and Kotwali Pilkhuwa police started searching for the miscreants. A campaign of intensive vehicle checking was launched.
The police collected information about the incident from nearby people and gathered information about the miscreants with the help of CCTV cameras. The police have arrested two miscreants involved in the incident. While the third criminal is absconding. Police teams have been deployed to search for it. All three miscreants are residents of Pilkhuwa police station area. Three cases are registered against accused Lokesh while information about other criminal history is being sought. He told that the victim had told that about Rs 25 thousand in cash was looted from him. Out of which the police have recovered Rs 18500 in cash, the looted mobile phone and the pistol and revolver used in the incident.
SP said that the motorcycle used in the robbery was stolen by the three miscreants from Noida a day before the incident. The main reason for theft was that it was to be used in crimes like robbery. The miscreants committed the crime after stealing the bike. During police interrogation, the miscreants revealed their names as Lokesh son of Amarsingh and Ajay son of Ramveer Singh, resident of Shahpur Fagauta police station Pilkhuwa. In the same incident, the absconding criminal Dharamraj son of Ramveer, resident of village Shahpur Fagauta Kotwali Pilkhuwa, district Hapur.
