Robbers' gang busted in Jammu, 5 held

Police today claimed to have busted a robbers' gang in the district with the arrest of five persons and recovered some arms and ammunitions from them.
They were identified as Haqiqat Singh alias Ladda, Ashok Kumar, Satish Kumar alias Bindu, Sachinder Singh alias Sehindi and Rash Paul Singh alias Kella, a police officer said.
During interrogation they admitted to their involvement in several robberies, including the one under the limits of Miran Sahib police station on November 5, wherein they had looted a Gandhi Nagar resident of cash worth Rs 75,000, when he was coming from Nari area in his car, police said.

A semi automatic pistol with two magazines, 2 desi katta 8 MM, one desi katta 12-bore,10 cartridges of 7.6MM, 5 cartridges of 8MM, 2 sharp edged weapons, a black mask and a bike were recovered from them, the police said.
The said gang was active from quite some time and with the arrest of the main culprits, a great success has been achieved, the officer said.