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Guwahati city police bust highway robbery gang, arrest 7 dacoits

| @indiablooms | Sep 02, 2018, at 10:34 pm

Guwahati, Sept 2 (IBNS): Guwahati city police on Sunday busted a highway robbery gang and arrested seven dacoits who had looted the people at highway for long period.

Guwahati city police recovered over 150 mobile phones, gold ornaments, laptop, TV sets, cash, three bikes, weapons in possession from them.

According to the reports, the robbery gang involved several incidents of looting people on highway.

Following a tip-off, a police team of Basistha police station in Guwahati led by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Nandini Kakati launched an operation at Basistha area and arrested seven dacoits.

The arrested dacoits were identified as Abhishek Dey, Baloram Brahma, Sanjay Singh, Joon Ali, Ajit Rabha, Nanta Dhar and Rahul Choudhury.

During the police investigation, they confessed that they were involved in several highway robbery incidents.

“We have engaged our sources about the robbery incidents and today launched operation and arrested the gang. We had recovered several mobile phones, weapons in possession from them. They had looted the people on highway,” Nandini Kakati said.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)

 

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