Ghaziabad, July 8 : Four men who robbed a software engineer here of a laptop, an iPhone 6 and Rs 2,000 in cash have been arrested, police said on Sunday.

Senior Superintendent of Police Vaibhav Krishna identified the arrested men as Indrajeet Saini alias Rajvir alias Saamba from Hoshiarpur in Punjab, Deepak Chauhan and his brother Rahul of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh and Krishna Kumar of Panipat in Haryana.

Indrajeet had been convicted for 10 years in jail in a drug case but escaped during a 15-day parole and began living in Haridwar where he met up with the other gang members.

Desperate to finance Rahul Chauhan's wedding, the gang decided to rob Vijay Munjal in Sector 136 Noida on June 30.

They entered his house on the pretext of delivering a wedding invitation to the house owner and pounced on the unsuspecting Munjal, a tenant, and robbed him. They gagged him with duct tape before escaping.

Following a tip off, the police in Ghaziabad first arrested Deepak and then the others. The police recovered the laptop, iPhone 6, duct tape and and Rs 500 besides two pistols.

The police said gang leader Indrajeet was found involved in 18 criminal cases of heinous nature in Punjab. The others too had a criminal history.

 

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Bengaluru (PTI): Four people, including three from other states, were arrested for allegedly selling banned narcotic substances in the city, police said on Tuesday.

With their arrests, police claimed to have seized 37. 400 kg ganja, 33 grams of hydro ganja and 23.19 grams of MDMA estimated to be worth Rs 48.24 lakh in the black market.

The action was taken following a tip-off on different dates that banned narcotic substances were being sold in the jurisdiction of the Mahadevapura, K G Halli and Malleswaram police stations, officials said.

During interrogation, the accused confessed that they had procured ganja, hydro ganja and MDMA from unidentified persons from other states with the intention of earning quick money and were selling the substances to the public and college students, a senior police officer said.

Efforts are underway to trace the persons from other states who supplied the narcotic substances to the accused, police said, adding that further investigation is underway.