Haryana police busted a gang of six persons of a family at Kaithal in Haryana allegedly involved in large number of robberies in religious ‘Dera’ in Haryana and Punjab states a couple of days ago while planning for a robbery at Kaithal. Among those arrested by the police were identified as mastermind in the racket father Karoda Ram (55) resident of Bhadson in Patiala district, his two sons Naseeb (25) and Ladee (35), son-in-law Manga (32) resident of Ahmedgarh in Punjab and two sons of his brother-in-law Sawar and Vinod of age around 30 and 35 both residents of Shahzadpur in Ambala district.
SP Kaithal Maqsood Ahmed told media persons that armed members of gang carrying rods, sharp-edged weapons were conducting robberies at religious ‘Dera’ in Haryana and Punjab during mid night since a long time and during police remand they admitted more than 20 robberies in past sometime in Haryana and Punjab. The mastermind in the racket Karoda Ram told that they used to plan robbery during day time and attack ‘Dera’ during mid night, severely beating ‘Dera’ head and caretakers, snatch money as well as gold and silver jewellery during attack threatening to kill them. The gang robbers disclosed that they were not using mobile phone during a robbery and used to snatch mobile phones from all those present in ‘Dera’ before leaving.
Arrested accused during preliminary police investigation told that they committed six robberies at different ‘Dera’ in Kaithal district, besides large number of robberies at religious ‘Dera’ in Ambala, Karnal, Yamunanagar and Kurukshetra district in Haryana and at Barnala, Patial and Ludhiana districts in Punjab.
