RAJKOT: Gir-Somnath district police arrested four members of the notorious Chikhligar gang of burglars who have been a menace with several house break-ins in Veraval and Talala region.
Veraval town police arrested Madan Singh alias Harajit Singh Dudhani (35), a resident of Vadodara, Joginder Singh Bhand, a resident of Bharuch, Gurmukh Singh, a resident of Vadodara, and Hardayal Singh Tilmtiya, a resident of Mendarda town of Junagadh district.
“On the night of July 20, Madan Singh and three others went to Veraval town in a car and burgled four houses, decamping with Rs 90,000 worth valubales from one of the houses. A complaint of theft was lodged by Pankaj Sharma, a resident of Shivaji Nagar of Veraval town a day after the house break-in. On July 21, the gang struck at five more houses in Talala town and escaped from the spot,” said the police.
However, no complaint was lodged in Talala house break-ins. But Veraval police had launched a probe in an FIR lodged by Pankaj Sharma and got one clue of a car that was used in the crime.
“A similar car was used in the Talala town burglary cases too and when inquired with the Regional Transport Office (RTO), we traced it to Madan Singh. The car was registered in the name of Madan Singh’s wife, Veer Kaur. Police then searched its internal database of criminals and found that over five cases had been lodged against Madan Singh in Vadodara in the past. We picked him up and during interrogation revealed the names of his gang members. We have detained them all,” police said.
Police claimed that the four accused have confessed to have committed over 30 burglaries across the state in the past few months.
