Ghaziabad, 31 August: The Ghaziabad police has arrested seven criminals in three separate encounters on Saturday night. During the encounter, five criminals were injured by the bullets fired by the police while two were caught by the police after combing, police said.
All the injured criminals have been admitted to the hospital for treatment. Among these criminals, two criminals used to steal vehicles from Delhi NCR and sell them in Jharkhand, Bihar, Gujarat etc.
ACP Link Road Shweta Kumari Yadav said on Sunday that the SWAT team and Link Road Police have jointly arrested Farooq Salmani, resident of Sonda Modinagar and Shahnawaz alias Golu, resident of Begumabad Modinagar after a face-to-face encounter near Surya Nagar railway bridge. Both the criminals were injured by the bullets fired by the police during the encounter. Two pistols, two Brezza cars with fake number plates and cartridges have been recovered from the possession of the criminals.
ACP apprised that criminals told the police during grilling that they were going to hide the stolen vehicles but during police checking, they had an encounter with the police and were arrested. They told that these people used to steal vehicles and take them to Jharkhand, Bihar, Gujarat and sell them on the basis of fake papers.
The second encounter took place in Kavi Nagar police station area. ACP Bhaskar Verma told that on August 25, the criminals broke into the house of businessman Achal Singhal in Rajnagar and looted two mobile phones and other items. Since then the police was searching for them. On Sunday night, the police arrested three criminals during the encounter. In which the criminals named Guddu Saifi and Hem Singh, residents of Amroha, were injured while Monu Sharma was arrested by the police after combing. The police recovered two pistols, cartridges and a Swift Dzire car from their possession.
Madhuban Bapudham police also arrested two criminals during an encounter on Sunday night. Ravi was injured by a police bullet while Raju was arrested by the police after combing the area. These people had entered Dhan Bahadur’s house in Rajnagar on August 25 and looted it.