Jeweller, his 3 cousins held for looting Rishikesh man

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, October 26

The city police arrested four persons here today for looting jewellery from a Saharanpur man. They have been identified as Rishikesh jeweller Saurabh Rastogi and his cousins Satendra Rastogi, Roopkishore Rastogi and Sumit Rastogi. The manhunt is on for their two absconding accomplices. The police recovered 327.5 gm of gold, 6 kg of silver and Rs 8.61 lakh from their possession.

Jogendra, a resident of Saharanpur, had filed a complaint with the Rishikesh police that three persons snatched a bag containing jewellery from him at Ashutosh Nagar when he was going to deliver the consignment at Rishikesh. He said the robbers fired gunshots at him, injuring him. They snatched the bag containing gold and silver jewellery worth lakhs of rupees.

SSP Sadanand Datte formed several police teams comprising Special Operations Group personnel led by SP, Rural, Shweta Chaubey. The police teams conducted raids at Rishikesh, Haridwar, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar and other places to nab the culprits. The police noticed a black motorcycle driven by three men in a CCTV camera footage of the crime spot during investigation.

They conducted a verification drive at Mayakund, Rishikesh. They found the motorcycle parked at the jewellery market at Mayakund. Jeweller Saurabh Rastogi, the owner of the motorcycle, was arrested and brought to police station for interrogation.

Saurabh told the police that he had lent the motorcycle to his cousins for looting jewellery. A police team was sent to Ghaziabad to arrest the robbers. The three culprits were arrested from Ghaziabad. It was revealed during investigation that Saurabh had leaked information to his cousins that Jogendra had come to Rishikesh to deliver the jewellery. Satendra had fired a gunshot at Jogendra before decamping with the bag.

The SSP said police teams had been formed to nan the absconding robbers identified as Aneesh and Naveen.

Four armed men loot Rs 15,000 from petrol pump

Dehradun: Four armed men looted Rs 15,000 from a cashier of a petrol pump, situated nearly 20 km from the city, under Shashpur police station, on Wednesday. The city police cordoned off the entire area and conducted a search operation but to no avail.

Sources said the car-borne looters entered the Issar petrol pump, situated on the Langha road, on the pretext of filling petrol in their car early this morning. They threatened the pump employees with country-made pistols.

The looters demanded cash from the employees and brutally thrashed them when they refused to give the cash. The employees alleged that the looters managed to escape from the petrol pump by threatening to shoot them if they raised an alarm.

The staff called the police control room after looters sped away in their car. A police team reached the spot to gather clues and made a sketch of one of the looters.

SSP Sadanand Datte said several police teams had been formed to arrest the looters. The teams were being sent to neighbouring cities to find clues and arrest the looters, he said.—TNS