Srinagar : Police on Friday said that it has busted a gang of burglars/motorcycle lifters in Pattan by arresting four accused persons involved in the commission of crime and also recovered stolen property from their possession.
In a statement issued from Zonal Police Headquarters Srinagar Police said that on July 14 Police Station Pattan received a written application from one John Mohammad War S/o Ab Ahad War R/o Palpora Pattan who alleged therein that some unknown thieves took away his Motorcycle bearing registration No. JK05E-8826 on 07/07/2023 when he kept that Motorcycle parked in front of his shop situated at Jamia Mohalla Pattan and went to offer Friday prayers but on return, he found that his Motorcycle was missing and had been stolen by some unknown thieves. Police in it’s statement further said that it has accordingly registered a a case vide FIR No. 231/2023 under relevant sections of law at Police Station Pattan and initiated investigation into the case. Stating that during preliminary course of investigation, some suspects were zeroed in on and during questioning, one suspected person identified as Mohd Abbas Daint S/o Mohd Ayoub Daint R/o Kusambagh Hakbara Hajin Bandipora confessed that he has stolen a motorcycle, Police in it’s statement furthermore said “ during further questioning, the said accused disclosed that he has also stolen three other Motorcycles and was supplying the same to one Sajad Ahmad Pahloo S/o Mohd Ramzan Pahloo R/o Madwan Hajin, who was assigned the job to change the parts of these stolen Motorcycles and after making modification in Motorcycles he was selling them. On his disclosure, police subsequently arrested him also in the instant case”.
Police in it’s statement also said that during investigation, names of two other persons identified as Lateef Ahmad Fafoo S/o Gh Ahmad Fafoo R/o Gund Prang Madwan Hajin and Sajad Ahmad Wagay S/o Mohd Maqbool Wagay R/o Gund Prang Madwan Hajin surfaced, who were subsequently arrested in the instant case, adding therein that on the disclosure of the above named accused all the stolen motorcycles were recovered from Gund Prang and Madwan Hajin Bandipora.
In the concluding para of it’s above quoted statement police said that the investigation into the case has been going on and more arrests and recoveries are expected.
