BHOPAL: An 18-year-old B-Tech student foiled a robbery attempt by an inter-state gang and caught one of them after chasing their scooter in Ashoka Garden locality on Sunday. He handed over the accused to cops deployed on a Dial-100 FRV of Ashoka Garden police.
Acting on his complaint police registered a case on charges of loot against the accused and arrested him. On Monday, police arrested two more accomplices of the accused based on the description of the student.
All the three accused nabbed hail from Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh and are hard-core criminals. They revealed of committing five more loots in Bhubaneswar in Odisha, and Jaipur and Kota in Rajasthan.
The accused were staying at a hotel in Laxmi Talkies area. Police recovered 45 mobile covers and 15 pieces made up of glass which resemble smartphones from their hotel room.
Investigating officer ASI Sanjay Mishra said that complainant Sumit Prajapati, 18, hails from Panna and resides at a rented flat here in Ashoka Garden. He is a BTech student of a private college.
On Sunday around 7.30 pm, one of the accused snatched Sumit’s phone and rushed towards his scooter-borne accomplice. Sumit chased and nabbed him and handed him over to cops.
ASI Mishra said that the suspect in custody was a native of Humayun Nagar area in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Police later arrested his accomplices.
