Thane: A gang of highway truck robbers busted after Thane crime branch Unit-1 officials on Saturday arrested the kingpin of the racket following an attempted robbery on the Mumbra bypass highway in Thane, officials said.
According to Krishna Kokani, Senior Inspector, Crime Branch Unit-1, the gang would often work on the Mumbra bypass at night and drive the truck drivers out of the way and beat them up on some pretext and eventually rob them and fled. “They mainly targeted truck drivers, accusing them of reckless driving or hiking, and later robbed them midway,” Kokani said.
“The main accused on Saturday Shahbaz Sayyad, who is also a history-sheeter, along with four of his associates targeted Sachin Shinde, a vegetable trader from Dhule, who was on his way. Vashi Market. The gang stopped his truck and started beating Shinde And later beat him up. When our patrolling team saw the commotion, Syed Instead tried to claim that Shinde had attacked him,” Kokani said.
However, when the crime branch unit led by PI Yogesh Kakar searched the accused, they uncovered his thief and realized that his game was over, Syed tried to escape, but alert police were able to arrest him. While his associates managed to escape into the nearby thicket. settlements
case has been registered by mumbra police Under sections 395, 323, 341, 504 and 506 of IPC.
According to Krishna Kokani, Senior Inspector, Crime Branch Unit-1, the gang would often work on the Mumbra bypass at night and drive the truck drivers out of the way and beat them up on some pretext and eventually rob them and fled. “They mainly targeted truck drivers, accusing them of reckless driving or hiking, and later robbed them midway,” Kokani said.
“The main accused on Saturday Shahbaz Sayyad, who is also a history-sheeter, along with four of his associates targeted Sachin Shinde, a vegetable trader from Dhule, who was on his way. Vashi Market. The gang stopped his truck and started beating Shinde And later beat him up. When our patrolling team saw the commotion, Syed Instead tried to claim that Shinde had attacked him,” Kokani said.
However, when the crime branch unit led by PI Yogesh Kakar searched the accused, they uncovered his thief and realized that his game was over, Syed tried to escape, but alert police were able to arrest him. While his associates managed to escape into the nearby thicket. settlements
case has been registered by mumbra police Under sections 395, 323, 341, 504 and 506 of IPC.
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