Two PEC students arrested for vandalising vehicles

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 2

Two days after vehicles were vandalised outside houses in Sectors 15, 21 and 22, the Chandigarh Police arrested two students of the PEC University of Technology in this connection. The police claimed that the accused were in an inebriated condition when they decided to take a joyride and broke windowpanes of cars for fun. Investigation revealed that over 10 vehicles were vandalised by them.

The cars of city Congress chief Pardeep Chhabra and Congress candidate for the MC poll Deipa Asdhir Dubey were also vandalised.

Inspector Maninder Singh, SHO of the Sector 19 police station, said since one of the car owners in Sector 21 had reported that the incident took place around 4 am, the police scrutinised the CCTV footage of cameras and  zeroed in on one car.

The police then investigated and found that the car was owned by a Pacnhkula resident. A raid was conducted and the accused, Akshit Jakhar, was arrested and the car used in the crime impounded.

On Jakhar’s disclosure, the second accused, Ekant Sahni, a native of Gurdaspur, was also nabbed.

The police said both accused were BTech students.

Accused were tipsy

The accused consumed liquor and went to McDonald’s, Zirakpur, to have food. The accused then came back to Chandigarh and broke the windowpanes of the cars.