Srinagar: The police has arrested four
people for allegedly involving in two cases of armed robbery
and seized looted property worth lakhs of rupees from them in
Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, police said today.
Acting on a complaint filed by two persons -- both
residents of Singhpora in Baramulla -- the police team
arrested the four people identified as Nissar Ahmad Rather
alias Chilaikalan, Mohammad Dilawar Dar, Basharat Ahmad Sheikh
and Adil Hussain Khan, they said.
"The police has solved a dacoity case and arrested a gang
of four persons involved in the crime, besides recovering the
looted property worth lakhs of rupees," a police spokesperson
said.
According to the complaint, four armed masked men barged
into the houses of two people on the intervening night of
December 10 and 11 and allegedly held the family members at
ransom.
"The complaint further reads that the dacoits tied the
members of the family with rope and also allegedly attempted
molestation of one woman in one of the houses. The dacoits
looted jewelry, mobile phones from both the houses," the
spokesperson said.
On the instance of the accused persons, all the looted
property estimated to be worth Rs 11 lakh has been seized from
different places.
The weapons used in committing the offences have also
been seized, he said.
