Crime Branch, Sector – 11

Sr. Date Detail of Event No. 1. 20.01.2015 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested 05 bookies who were indulged in gambling activities on Cricket Matches. There were complaints that some gamblers are indulging in the Tricity and they are playing and planning to cheat the innocent public by the way of alluring them to put their money on the forthcoming Cricket World Cup-2015. A case FIR No. 17 dated 20.01.2015 u/s 420,120-B IPC and 4&13-3-67 Gambling Act has been registered in Police Station Sector-19, Chandigarh has been worked out. 2. 12.02.2015 Crime Branch developed secret information that 03 accused persons namely Sanjog Kumar, Sonu Dhane and Sanju were frequently involved in Auto lifting in the tri-city. During the course of investigation, 08 stolen Motor cycles and 03 stolen scooters were recovered on their disclosure solving 11 cases of auto theft registered with different police station of the city. 3. 23.02.2015 Crime Branch of Chandigarh police have arrested five persons and break the nexus of officials of Car dealer agencies, banking officials along with other persons, who got approved the loan for brand new vehicles on the basis of fake and forged documents and sold out the same to the different purchasers and as such they caused wrongful loss lacs of rupees to the banks and the general public. A case FIR no. 54 dated 18/02/2015 u/s 419/420/467/468/471/474/120-B IPC, Police Station-31, Chandigarh. During the course of investigation all together 11 vehicles have been recovered from the possession of accused as well as purchasers which were procured by the above said accused from the different car agencies by obtaining loans on fake and forged documents and further sold some of vehicles to the innocent buyers and the detail of recovered vehicles is as under:- DUSTAR- 2, MARUTI SWIFT-3, ALTO- 2, ETTOS CROSS-1, BALERO PICK UP-1, HYUNDAI I-20, 1MOHINDERA, VERITO-1 4. 31.03.2015 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police apprehended 02 persons and recovered 150 boxes (1800 bottles) of Beer make Kingfisher from a vehicle bearing registration no. HR-68-6250 (Mahindra Pick- up) with them any legal permit/permission. The said consignment is being smuggled outside Chandigarh. A case FIR no. 164 dated 31.03.2015 u/s 61-01-14 Excise Act, PS Manimajra, Chandigarh was registered in this regard. 5. 08.04.2015 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police apprehended 02 persons and with their arrest succeeded to crack a gang who used to rob jewellery and money from the school children by beating and showing artificial gun and on the pretext to protect them from other school children. Both the accused were arrested on 07.04.2015 and recovered Rs. 4500/- and one gold ring from their possession. A case FIR No. 108 dated 07.04.2015 u/s 392, 34 IPC, PS – 17, Chandigarh was registered in this regard. 6. 23.05.2015 The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police succeeded in apprehending an accused namely Emmanuel Chukwunonye s/o Oforka of Nigerian, while he was in possession of 28 gms Cocaine without any license or permit. A case FIR No. 168 dated 23.05.2015 u/s 21 NDPS Act, has been registered in PS – 17, Chandigarh 7. 01.07.2015 In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested one person namely Mukesh Kumar s/o Sh. Pankaj Kumar r/o H.No. 703, Village Hallo Majra, Chandigarh Permanent Address Village-Sapohi, Post Office-Kaushila, PS-Bodh Gaya, Distt-Gaya, Bihar who was indulged in preparing fake Aadhar Cards. After verifying the facts, a case FIR No. 189 dated 30.06.2015 u/s 420, 467,468 IPC, PS-31, Chandigarh was registered in this regard. Fake Aadhar Card and equipments i.e. CPU, Printer, Scanner and other materials which he was using to prepare fake Aadhar Cards were also seized from his institute. 8. 28.07.2015 The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police succeeded in apprehending two inter-state drug peddlers namely Manzoor and Mazid Hassan both resident of Distt Anantnag, Jammu & Kashmir while they were carrying 500 gms Charas without any license or permit. 9. 03.08.2015 Crime Branch developed a secret information that 02 accused persons namely Manoj Kumar s/o Sh. Ramesh Kumar r/o Village-Devipura, PS-Bhojpur, Distt-Muradabad, UP, age about 32 years and Mukesh Kumar s/o Late Sh. Ram Niwas Singh r/o Village -Garha, Post Office & PS-Dhanari, Distt- Sambhal, UP, age about 25 yrs were frequently involved in Auto lifting in the tri-city. During the course of investigation, 13 stolen two wheelers were recovered on their disclosure which led to solving of 10 cases of auto theft registered with different police station of the city 10. 08/08/2015 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police conducted raids on the premises of Hookah Bar at the Kasbah Lounge, SCO No. 47, back side showroom, Sector-26, Chandigarh & SCO No. 19, Cafeena-26, Sector-26, Chandigarh which are owned by Love Gupta and Amit Verma, respectively. Dr. Deepak Bakshi of GMSH, Sector-16, Chandigarh and Drug Inspector were also accompanied the police team. Large numbers of Hookah Consumers were found sitting in both the premises. During checking, samples of all the relevant articles including different flavours, which were used in hookahs were taken into possession with the help of Drug Inspector after sampling 11. 23.08.2015 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Rojia @ Sony R/o Village-Dialpura, Zirakpur, Distt. Mohali (Pb) from Green Belt, Dividing road, Sector-45 C&D, Chandigarh and recovered 7 Gram of Heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No. 420 U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-34, Chandigarh. 12. 06.09.2015 Chandigarh Police (Crime Branch) arrested Harjit Singh R/o # 348, Sector-45-A, Chandigarh near Community Centre, Sector-45, Chandigarh and recovered 25 Gram of Heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No. 443 U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-34, Chandigarh. 13. 21.09.2015 Chandigarh Police (Crime Branch) arrested Pawan Kumar R/o # 2356, MWT, MM, Chandigarh near Bus Stop, IT Park, MM, Chandigarh and recovered 250 Gram of Opium from his possession. A Case FIR No. 510 U/S 18 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-MM, Chandigarh. Further investigation is going on. 14. 07.10.2015 Crime Branch arrested Arvind Kumar R/o # 2760, Sector-37-C, Chandigarh near Govt. Model School, Sector-37, Chandigarh and recovered 12 Gram of Smack from his possession. A Case FIR No.417 U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-39, Chandigarh. Further investigation is going on. 15. 20.10.2015 Crime Branch manned a trap near Petrol Pump, Sector-52, Chandigarh and succeeded in arresting accused namely Sanjeev Kumar and Rehmat Ali along with stolen Motor Cycle having registration No. PB65-M-3412 make Platina Bajaj and Activa having registration No. CH01-AD-2289, which were stolen vide FIR No. 377 dated 01.10.2015 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh & FIR No. 246 dated 05.07.2015 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh, respectively. During the course of investigation, they have disclosed that they have stolen number of two wheelers from Chandigarh. Both the accused were produced in the court on 19.10.2015 and obtained 02 days police remand. During the course of investigation, 11 stolen two wheelers were recovered on their disclosure which led to solving of 8 cases of auto theft registered with different police station of the city. In the second incident, Crime Branch succeeded to arrest a notorious inter-state gold chain snatcher namely Dilshad s/o Badhi Shah R/o H.No. 32/3, Raipur Kalan, Chandigarh. On 14.10.2015, a naka was laid down near Railway Quarters, Mauli Jagran, UT/Chandigarh and recovered one gold chain from his possession which was snatched in case FIR No. 427 dated 25.08.2015 u/s 379, 356, 452,411 IPC, PS-34, Chandigarh. He was produced in the court on 15.10.2015 and obtained 04 days police remand. During interrogation, he disclosed that he along with one Vicky of Delhi had snatched number of gold chains from different places in the area of U.T.,Chandigarh. With the arrest of accused Dilshad, so far total 06 cases of snatching out of which 05 of gold chains and 01 mobile phone have been worked out on his instance. 16. 01.11.2015 In a major achievement the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police managed to arrest Abrar Khan s/o Ishmaile Khan r/o Village Bholupur, Distt. Dabriya (UP), an under trial who alongwith four under trial accused persons managed to escaped from the Judicial Lock-up, District Court, Sector-43, Chandigarh. The accused was arrested from Airport Light Point. The accused was riding on motor cycle which was stolen from the area of Panchkula. This is the second arrest made by Chandigarh Police, With the arrest of accused Abrar Khan the following three cases have been worked out:- Case FIR No. 312/15 u/s 379,356,411 IPC, PS-31, Chandigarh, Case FIR No. 322 dated 30.10.2015 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-31, Chandigarh, Case FIR No. 373 dated 23.09.2015 u/s 224,34 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh In 2nd incident Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police managed to re-arrest Jeewan Singh @ Rimpy s/o Late Sh. Surjit Singh r/o House No. 732, Sector-40 A, Chandigarh from sector-41, after he had managed to escape from police station sector-34, Chandigarh. The accused was earlier arrested from sector-45, Chandigarh while he was carrying 7 grams Heroin. A case FIR No. 514, U/S 223, 224 IPC and FIR No. 512 U/S 21 NDPS Act registered in PS-34. 17. 04.11.2015 In a major achievement, the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police managed to arrest accused Joginder Singh s/o Sh. Ram Kishan r/o Village Hatt, PS Saffidon, District Jind, Haryana, who is a Proclaimed Offender in number of criminal cases of Chandigarh and Haryana. On 03.11.2015, on a tip-off, the team of Crime Branch laid a naka at roundabout Sectors 24/25/37/38, Chandigarh and apprehended above said accused while he was coming from the side of Sector-25, Chandigarh. He was arrested in case FIR No. 106 dated 06.04.2006 u/s 365,382,384,323,506,120-B IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh in which he was declared as proclaimed offender by the trial court. 18. 21.11.2015 Crime Branch arrested Manoj Kumar R/o # 606, Sector 38-A, Chandigarh near light point, Sector- 25/38, Chandigarh and recovered 5 gram of Heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No. 469, U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-39, Chandigarh. Further investigation is going on. 19. 16.11.2015 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Shane Alam s/o Jane Alam r/o Village & Police Station- Kiratpur, Mohalla-Mustian, District-Bijnour (UP) and Mohd Sazid s/o Mohd Gaffar r/o H.No. 144, near Ramaiya Public School, Mohalla-Kajipada, District-Bijnour, (UP). Accused Shane Alam escaped alongwith other three under trial accused persons from the Judicial Lock-up, District Court, Sector-43, Chandigarh on 23.09.2015. With the arrest of both the accused, so far the following five cases have been worked out:- 1. Case FIR No. 131/15 u/s 356/382, IPC, PS-Phase-XI, Mohali, Punjab, 2. Case FIR No. 456 dated 16.11.2015 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh. 3. Case FIR No. 373 dated 23.09.2015 u/s 224, 34 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh. 4. Case FIR No. 312/15 u/s 379, 356, 411 IPC, PS-31, Chandigarh. 5.Case FIR No. 322 dated 30.10.2015 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-31, Chandigarh. 20. 24.11.2015 Chandigarh Police (Crime Branch) arrested Rajiv Kumar @ Raju R/o # 55, Dashmesh Enclave, Dhakoli, PS-Zirakpur (Pb) near Cremation Ground, Daria, Chandigarh and recovered 7 Gram of Heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No.361 U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-Ind. Area, Chandigarh. Further investigation is going on. 21. 29.12.2015 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police has succeeded to arrest a burglar namely Jatin aged about 25 yrs s/o Sh. Shankar r/o Village-Pach Bhaiya, PS-Rajganj, Distt-Uttar Dinapur, West Bengal and recovered 25 mobiles of different makes and one laptop from his possession.

The facts of the case are that on 16.12.2015, Sh. Ghansham Bhardwaj s/o Ashok Kumar r/o H.No. 2031, Pipliwala Town, Mani Majra, Chandigarh reported about the burglary of new mobiles by breaking open the locks of his shop M/s Mobile and Electrics Works at shop No. 21, Gali No. 3, Shanti Nagar, Mani Majra, Chandigarh. A case FIR No. 669 dated 16.12.2015 u/s 457,380 IPC, PS-MM was registered in this regard.

On 28.12.2015, on a secret information, a team of Crime Branch apprehended accused namely Jatin aged about 25 yrs s/o Sh. Shankar r/o Village-Pach Bhaiya, PS-Rajganj, Distt-Uttar Dinapur, West Bengal and recovered 02 mobile phones from his possession on the spot which were found to be stolen in the above said case.

During the interrogation, he has disclosed that he alongwith his accomplice has had committed number of burglaries especially on electronic shops in the area of Chandigarh. During the further investigation, 23 more mobile handsets of different makes and a laptop were also recovered on his instance. Out of these 23 mobile handsets, 14 mobile phones found to be stolen in the above said case and the remaining 11 mobile handsets and laptop are being verified from where he had stolen the same.

Modus Operandi

The accused belongs to West Bengal and presently residing in the area of Mani Majra, Chandigarh. He is a drug addict and used to steal electronic items by breaking the locks of different electronic shops along with his accomplice. He is in practice of selling stolen mobile handsets on the lower/cheaper rates to the students and other needy persons in order to fulfil his drug requirement.

Further investigation is going-on and some more recoveries are likely to be effected.

22. 30.01.2016 In a major success, Crime Branch has succeeded to apprehend the kingpin of the gang namely Inderjit @ Inder s/o late Sh. Raju r/o H.No. 287, I-Block, Tigri Camp, New Delhi from Ambedkar Nagar and recovered a car having registration No. DL3C-DZ-2007 and some equipments/articles i.e. oil, pointed edge weapon (sua), some iron balls and air diffused device from his possession which they used for executing the crime So far, cash Rs. 4.50 lacs, a car make I-20, one Activa and some equipments used in the crime have been recovered from his possession solving the following cases: 1. FIR No. 26 dated 14.01.2016 u/s 379 added 411 IPC, PS-17, Chandigarh 2. FIR Nol. 417 dated 22.11.2015 u/s 420, added 411 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh Modus Operandi The accused persons are originally belongs to Tamil Nadu state and presently residing at EWS Colony in Delhi. They used to visit tricity on weekly and fortnightly basis to commit the crime by using the car and two wheelers. First they made raccie on two wheelers of the places from where the people carry heavy cash. When the victims carry cash bags in their vehicle, the accused persons followed them and they stopped the vehicle by getting the tyre punctured and thereafter they split oil at front portion of the vehicle and by deceiving the victims they robbed the cash bags and as such they committed number of crimes in the tricity and other states of India and looted lacs of rupees. After committing the crime they again shifted to Delhi by dropping two wheeler involved in crime in a local busy parking and took away car with them to Delhi. 23. 11.02.2016 On 11.02.2016, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police received a secret information that two persons namely Ranbir s/o Ramesh Chand r/o Janta Colony, Naya Gaon, District Mohali and Vijay s/o Khaleel Nath r/o Jhuggi, Shastri Nagar, Mani Majra, Chandigarh are in illegal sale of 'double-headed wonder‟ snakes in the area of UT/Chandigarh on very high rates to the innocent persons and presently they are present at the back side of BDC, Sector-26, Chandigarh. On this information, the Wild Life Department, Sector-19, Chandigarh was intimated and requested to join the team of Crime Branch to arrest the snake sellers. After joining the team of Wild Life Department, Sector-19, Chandigarh, a raiding team was constituted. A bundle of papers having two notes of Indian currency of 500/- rupees denomination was prepared and handed over to the decoy customer and necessary instructions were given to him. The decoy was sent in a ground located at the back side of Bapu Dham Colony, Sector-26, Chandigarh to struck a deal with the above said persons. As per the instructions, the decoy customer finalized the deal with the snake dealers in Rs. 15 lacs for one snake and handed over the prepared bundle of notes of Rs.50,000/- to them as advance money. On receiving the signal from the decoy customer, the team of Crime Branch alongwith the team of Wild Life Department acted swiftly and apprehended both the accused along with a bag. On asking, they disclosed their names as Ranbir s/o Ramesh Chand r/o H.No. 953, Janta Colony, Naya Gaon, Punjab and Vijay s/o Khaleel Nath r/o Jhuggi, Shastri Nagar, Mani Majra, Chandigarh. On search of the bag, three 'double-headed wonder‟ (two mouth snakes) of brown and red colour of SAND-BUA breed were recovered. The bundle of money which was handed over to them by decoy was also recovered. On this, case FIR No. 37 dated 11.02.2016 u/s 9, 44, 52, 49B-1, 51 of Wild Life Protection Act-1972 and 420 IPC, PS-26, Chandigarh was registered. During investigation, both the above said accused were arrested. Modus Operandi Accused Vijay is permanent resident of Sonipat, Haryana and belongs to a Nath Community. He used to capture the snakes especially SAND BUA breed from the jungle areas of Haryana, UP and Rajasthan and sell the same at high rates with the help of other associates to the needy persons who prepare the drugs/medicine especially to improve the sex power. They further disclosed that some people are also in practice to keep these breeds of snakes in their houses to get the spiritual powers. Profile of the accused Name Ranbir Father Name Ramesh Chand Present Address H.No. 955, Janta Colony, Naya Gaon, District Mohali. Occupation Dealer (snake dealer) Age 26 yrs

Profile of the accused Name Vijay Father Name Khaleel Nath Present Address Jhuggi, Shastri Nagar, Mani Majra, Chandigarh Permanent Add. Vikas Colony, Gali No. 8, near Suraj Mal petrol Pump, Sonipat, Hry. Age 20 yrs Occupation Spera 2nd Incident : In a major achievement, the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police has arrested an absconding accused Vicky @ Rajasthani s/o Kishan Kumar r/o Village-Paras Rampura, PS-Navalgarh, District- Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, age-23 yrs, an under trial who along with three other under trial accused persons escaped from the Judicial Lock-up, District Court, Sector-43, Chandigarh on 23.09.2015. The accused was arrested from his native village-Paras Rampura, Rajasthan. This is the arrest of fourth accused by the Crime Branch and with this arrest, all four escaped accused have had arrested. Earlier, the team of Crime Branch had succeeded to arrest absconding accused Pankaj, Abrar Khan and Shane Alam. Accused Vicky @ Rajasthani found involved in dozen of robbery, snatching and theft cases. On 11.02.2016, accused was produced before the Hon‟ble Court and obtained two days police remand. With the arrest of accused Vicky @ Rajasthani, the following two cases have been worked out:- 1. Case FIR No. 373 dated 23.09.2015 u/s 224,34 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh 2. Case FIR No. 374 dated 23.09.2015 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-Industrial Area, Chandigarh. 24. 1.3.2016 Accused Arrested by Crime Branch There was spurt increase in the incidents of robbery/snatching/auto-theft in the City. As per the briefings given by the senior officers, a special campaign was organized by the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police to target the robbers/gangs of such modus operandi. Even reliable informers were deployed for the collection of intelligence and technical help was also taken. On a specific input, a trap was laid by Crime Branch to nab the culprit on 28.02.2016 naka near Lake, Village Dhanas, UT/Chandigarh and succeeded in apprehending two members of a robbers gang namely Sagar (king-pin) and Suraj who robbed the people/passengers during night hours by using stolen three wheeler/car and two wheeler in the tricity. The said gang on the night intervening 08/09.02.2016, the members of the above gang snatched a three wheeler bearing Registration No. PB-65R-2327, mobile and cash of the auto- driver from the jurisdiction of PS-39, Chandigarh and after that they robbed valuables articles from three persons at different places in city regarding which case FIR No.22 dated 09.02.2016 u/s 392/511 IPC, PS-11, Chandigarh, case FIR No.23 dated 09.02.2016 u/s 392, 34 IPC, PS-11, Chandigarh, case FIR No.25 dated 09.02.2016 u/s 392/34 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh and case FIR No.12 dated 09.02.2016 u/s 382 IPC, PS-49, Chandigarh were registered. During preliminary interrogation, they confessed that besides these incidents, they have committed number of robberies/snatchings/auto-thefts in the area of Chandigarh with the help of their associates namely Surjit and Shankar. Both the accused were arrested in case FIR No.22 dated 09.02.2016 u/s 392, 511 IPC and FIR No.23 dated 09.02.2016 u/s 392, 34 IPC, both of PS-11, Chandigarh and produced before the Hon‟ble Court of Sh. Aman Inder Singh, JMIC/Chandigarh and obtained three days police remand. Modus Operandi All the accused are drug addicts and residing in the slum areas of Chandigarh and having past criminal record. Accused Sagar is in the list of Most Wanted Criminal of Chandigarh Police. They especially operate during the night hours for committing robbery/snatching/vehicle theft. They used to steal two-wheelers, autos and four-wheelers from the area of UT/Chandigarh. After executing the crime, they used to left the stolen vehicle in the busy parking lots or in the jungle areas. They first identify the person going alone and carrying valuable articles and then attacked upon him with lathis & sharp edged weapons. Sometimes, they pick the persons as passengers from Bus Stand, Railway Station etc on the stolen vehicle and took them to the deserted places for committing the crime. They spent the looted/robbed money for fulfilling drug requirement and lavish lifestyle. After committing the crime, they hide themselves in a tunnel under railway track near Jagatpura and made it a safe hideout. Profile of the accused No. 1 Accused Sagar s/o Raju r/o Jhuggi No. 774, Sector-25, Chandigarh, age about 20 yrs, is an unemployed and was indulged in Crime since the age of 12 years and involved in more than two dozen criminal cases of robbery, snatching, theft etc. Profile of the accused No. 2 Accused Suraj s/o Inderjit r/o House No.1622, Ram Darbar, Phase-II, Chandigarh, age about 24 yrs, is an unemployed and was found indulged in 02 criminal cases of snatching and theft. Profile of the accused No. 3 Accused Surjit s/o Badlu r/o House No.2110, Phase-II, Ram Darbar, Chandigarh, age about 19 yrs, is an unemployed. Profile of the accused No. 4 Accused Sandeep s/o Tilak Raj r/o Village-Faidan, Chandigarh, age about 20 yrs, is an unemployed. The investigation of the case is in progress. Some more recoveries are likely to be affected.

25. 20.3.2016 Accused arrested in Case FIR No. 136, U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-17, Chandigarh Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Ekant Kumar R/o # 3501, Sector-23, Chandigarh near Petrol Pump, Sector-22, Chandigarh and recovered 5 gram of Heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No. 136, U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-17, Chandigarh. Further investigation is going on.

26. 03.04.2016 Accused arrested in Case FIR No. 63 U/S 21 NDPS, PS-36, Chandigarh

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Brinder Singh @ Binder R/o Village Chaundri, Distt. Mohali, Chandigarh near Petrol Pump, Village Kajheri, UT, Chandigarh and recovered 6 gram of Heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No. 63, U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-36, Chandigarh. Further investigation is going on.

27. 04.04.2016 Accused arrested in Case FIR No. 125 U/S 15 NDPS Act, PS-34, Chandigarh

Chandigarh Police (Crime Branch) arrested Vikram Singh R/o # 53, Village-Faidan, Chandigarh from Sector-46-D, Chandigarh and recovered 1.9 KG Chura Paust from his possession. A Case FIR No. 125 U/S 15 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-34, Chandigarh.

28. 11.4.2016 Accused arrested in Case FIR No. 62 U/S 411 IPC, PS-11, Chandigarh

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Ashok Bansal R/o # 2512, Adrash Nagar, Naya Gaon, (PB) near gate of P.E.C., Sector 12, Chandigarh on 10-04-2016 and recovered stolen items (two pair gold ear rings, two gold bangles, one pair silver anklets) from his possession. A case FIR No. 62, U/S 411 IPC has been registered in PS-11, Chandigarh. Investigation of the case is in progress. 29. 11.4.2016 Accused arrested in Case FIR No. 63 U/S 20 NDPS Act, PS-11, Chandigarh

Chandigarh Police arrested a lady resident of DBC, Sector-25, Chandigarh from Sector 25, Chandigarh and recovered 180 Gram of Ganja from her possession. A Case FIR No. 63, U/S 20 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-11, Chandigarh. Further investigation is going on.

30. 20.3.2016 Accused arrested in Case FIR No. 136, U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-17, Chandigarh

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Ekant Kumar R/o # 3501, Sector-23, Chandigarh near Petrol Pump, Sector-22, Chandigarh and recovered 5 gram of Heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No. 136, U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-17, Chandigarh. Further investigation is going on.

31. 03.04.2016 Accused arrested in Case FIR No. 63 U/S 21 NDPS, PS-36, Chandigarh

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Brinder Singh @ Binder R/o Village Chaundri, Distt. Mohali, Chandigarh near Petrol Pump, Village Kajheri, UT, Chandigarh and recovered 6 gram of Heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No. 63, U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-36, Chandigarh. Further investigation is going on.

32. 04.04.2016 Accused arrested in Case FIR No. 125 U/S 15 NDPS Act, PS-34, Chandigarh

Chandigarh Police (Crime Branch) arrested Vikram Singh R/o # 53, Village-Faidan, Chandigarh from Sector-46-D, Chandigarh and recovered 1.9 KG Chura Paust from his possession. A Case FIR No. 125 U/S 15 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-34, Chandigarh.

33. 11.4.2016 Accused arrested in Case FIR No. 63 U/S 20 NDPS Act, PS-11, Chandigarh

Chandigarh Police arrested a lady resident of DBC, Sector-25, Chandigarh from Sector 25, Chandigarh and recovered 180 Gram of Ganja from her possession. A Case FIR No. 63, U/S 20 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-11, Chandigarh. Further investigation is going on.

34. 11.4.2016 Accused arrested in Case FIR No. 62 U/S 411 IPC, PS-11, Chandigarh

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Ashok Bansal R/o # 2512, Adrash Nagar, Naya Gaon, (PB) near gate of P.E.C., Sector 12, Chandigarh on 10-04-2016 and recovered stolen items (two pair gold ear rings, two gold bangles, one pair silver anklets) from his possession. A case FIR No. 62, U/S 411 IPC has been registered in PS-11, Chandigarh. Investigation of the case is in progress.

35. 30.04.2016 Apprehension of accused in Case FIR No. 33 U/S 21 NDPS Act, PS-49, Chandigarh.

Chandigarh Police (Crime Branch) arrested Nikhil Thakur @ Vicky R/o # 1037, Chief Auditor Society, Sector-50, Chandigarh near Mandir, Sector-49, Chandigarh and recovered 8 Gram of Heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No. 33 U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-49, Chandigarh.

36. 30.04.2016 Apprehension of accused in Case FIR No. 119 U/S 20 NDPS Act, PS-39, Chandigarh.

Chandigarh Police (Crime Branch) arrested Mohinder R/o # 11, C-Block, 3 Rohini Vijay Vihar, Lal Quarter, Delhi -85 near dividing road, Sector-38-A/B, Chandigarh and recovered 500 Gram of Ganja from his possession. A Case FIR No. 119 U/S 20 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-39, Chandigarh.

37. 07.05.2016 Auto lifter Gang busted by Crime branch

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police succeeded in arresting accused Jhujhar Singh s/o Sh. Gurmmet Singh r/o Village-Saini Majra, District-Mohali and Vinod @ Vicky s/o Jogi Ram r/o H.No. 205, Seema Puri Border Kalender Colony, New Delhi and worked out five cases of auto vehicle thefts.

On 05.05.2016, accused Jhujhar Singh was brought on production warrant from Ambala Jail who was in judicial custody in case FIR No. 103/2016 u/s 379,473,411 IPC, PS-Pinjore, Panckhula, Haryana and obtained two days police remand. During interrogation, he disclosed that he and one Vinod @ Vicky had stolen several vehicles from different locations of UT/Chandigarh. Accused Vicky was also arrested from near Laxmin Naryan Mandir Sector-44, Chandigarh on 06.05.2016 alongwith stolen vehicle motorcycle No. PB-11-AH-5385, make pulsar.

During further investigation, total 05 vehicles i.e. 04 motorcycles and one Bolero Jeep have been recovered on their instance.

38. 19.05.2016 Apprehension of accused case FIR No. 150 dated 19.05.2016 u/s 21 NDPS Act, PS-31, Chandigarh

The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police succeeded in apprehending a Nigerian National namely Fraink Moses s/o Moses r/o H.No. 1722/B, Eenug Street, Lagos, Nigeria, while he was in possession of 30 gms Heroin valuing Rs. 2 lacs.

On 18.05.2016, during a special drive, a team of Crime Branch was on patrolling duty near Light Point, Sector-31/Industrial Area, Phase-2, Chandigarh. Suddenly, the team noticed that one Nigerian pedestrian coming from the side of Tribune Chowk towards Light Point. On seeing the police party, the said person turned back and tried to escape, but with prompt action, the team members apprehended him. He put out a polythene bag from his trouser and tried to throw away the same, but the police party taken the same from his hand. On checking, 30 gms Heroin recovered from the polythene bag. On further interrogation, he disclosed his name as Fraink Moses s/o Moses r/o H.No. 1722/B, Eenug Street, Lagos, Nigeria presently resides at H.No. B/20, Block No. 712, Sector-21, Dwarka, New Delhi. Accordingly, case FIR No. 150 dated 19.05.2016 u/s 21 NDPS Act, PS-31, Chandigarh was registered in this regard. He failed to produce his passport and visa of staying in India. Hence, Section 14 of Foreigners Act has also been added.

During interrogation, he disclosed that he came India in the month of January-2015 on business visa. During the stay in India, he came into contact with one Denis who is also a Nigerian national and started supplying contrabands in the area of Delhi, Haryana, Chandigarh and nearby areas. He further disclosed that he used to contact with the drug peddlers on phone and as per their demand, he supply the drugs on the Highway from Delhi to Chandigarh as well as in the area of UT/Chandigarh at the places already settled.

39. 08.06.2016 Crime Branch arrested accused in several infamous burglary cases

In a major achievement, the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police succeeded to work out several infamous cases of burglary by arresting accused Ravi @ Pujari by recovering jewellery/diamond ornaments worth Rs. 38 lacs.

The facts of the case are that on 18.02.2016, Smt. Rami Tuli w/o Sh. P.S. Chhatwal R/o H.No.117, Sector-36/A, Chandigarh reported that on the intervening night 17/18.02.2016, some unknown person entered into her house by breaking open the glass of window and burgled the house and took away cash and jewellery worth Rs. 50-60 lacs. A case FIR No. 34 dated 18.02.2016 u/s 380, 457 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh was registered in this regard. Besides this, a big burglary was also occurred last year in the month of May at H.No. 552, Sector-18/A, Chandigarh in which burglar robbed Rs. 35 lacs in cash.

In order to trace out the above said case, a team consisting Inspector Gurmukh Singh, I/C Crime Brach, Inspector Ranjit Singh, Inspector Krishan Kumar, SI Ashok Kumar & other officials under the close supervision of Sh. Pawan Kumar, DSP/Crime was constituted. During the course of investigation, CCTV footage of the person seen in the footage was shared with the neighbouring states‟ crime agencies. The team received some inputs that the burglar was trying to sell out the stolen jewellery in the area of Ambala City. The team developed the information and identified the accused and his address. On 09.05.2016, the team laid nakas in the areas of Panchkula with the help of Crime Branch, Panchkula. On a tip off, a team of Crime Branch, Panchkula has succeeded to arrest the above said accused namely Ravi @ Pujari.

On 31.05.2016, accused person was brought on production warrant in the above said case and obtained 08 days police remand. During interrogation, he confessed that he had committed number of burglaries in the area of Panchkula and Chandigarh including infamous burglary at H.No. 117, Sector-36, Chandigarh and H.No.552, Sector-19, Chandigarh in which jewellery & cash more than rupees one crore were stolen.

During interrogation, he disclosed that he had mortgaged some of the stolen jewellery with a jeweller namely Sanjeev Kumar Jain M/s Pyare Lal Darshan Kumar Jain Jeweller, Sarafa Bazar, Ambala City, Haryana and some of the jewellery is hidden at his house at Village-Surajpur, Panchkula. Upon this disclosure, the team recovered the following gold jewellery/diamonds ornaments at his instance.

40. 13.07.2016 Accused apprehended in case FIR No. 364 dated 25.11.15 u/s 384, 386,120-B IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh and FIR No. 393 dated 23.12.2015 u/s 392, 323, 34 IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh. In a major achievement, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police has succeeded in arresting accused Wasim s/o Abdul Mazid r/o House No.1452/17, Sector-29-B, Chandigarh who was the main accused in case FIR No. 364 dated 25.11.15 u/s 384, 386,120-B IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh and FIR No. 393 dated 23.12.2015 u/s 392, 323, 34 IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh. The facts of the case are that on 25.11.2015, complainant Sh. Dharminder Kumar s/o Sh. Hari Parshad r/o H. No. 3, Block-F, Colony No. 4, Industrial Area, Chandigarh reported that accused Wasim alongwith his accomplices Ajay, Anil @ Bevan, Pankaj @ Khopri demanded money (protection money) from him by threatening him that if he wants to run the shop in this area, he has to pay protection money on regular basis, else they will eliminate him. In this regard, complainant filed a complaint in Crime Branch, Sector-11, Chandigarh. Upon this information, a team of Crime Branch laid a trap near the shop of the complainant. The accused person was regularly calling for money and was saying that he is sending some persons to collect the protection money. On the same day, at around 8.00 PM, complainant received a call for collection of money and the caller asked him to come near Fire Station, Industrial Area, Chandigarh. Acting upon this information, the complainant was asked to handover Rs. 10,000/- to the caller. Thereafter, police party followed the complainant after issuing necessary directions to him. By taking a prompt action, Police party apprehended the accused while he was accepting the demanded money from the complainant. The person disclosed his name as Mukesh Kumar s/o Late Sh. Narad Parshad r/o H.No. 521, Block-F, Colony No. 4, Industrial Area, Chandigarh. During the course of investigation, accused Mukesh Kumar disclosed that he was sent by Wasim and Bevan to collect the protection money from complainant Sh. Dharminder Kumar with the directions to handover the same to them. He disclosed that there are 5-6 persons in their gang headed by Wasim and they all used to shift their residence after a short interval to the different places. During the course of investigation, one another accused Anil @ Bevan was also arrested. Police party raided at different places in order to arrest the remaining accused in this case but every time, they succeeded in escaping. MODUS-OPERANDI He is a most wanted notorious criminal. He alongwith his associates namely Ajay, Anil @ Bevan, Pankaj @ Khopri operate a gang and give threat to local shop-keepers and extort money from them. Crime Branch was continuously searching the main accused and on a tip-off, accused Wasim was arrested by a team of Crime Branch, Sector-11, Chandigarh from market, Sector-28, Chandigarh on 12.07.2016. 41. 15.07.2016 Vehicle lifter gang arrested Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police has succeeded in arresting a vehicle lifter gang namely Bunty Kumar s/o Kashi Nath r/o House No.207, Village Hallo Majra, Chandigarh and Shanky s/o Bahadur r/o House No.490, Ram Darbar, Phase-I, Chandigarh by recovering 07 vehicles (two wheelers) from their possession. On 12.07.2016, on a tip-off, a team of Crime Branch laid a naka near T-Point, dividing road, Sector- 44/45, Chandigarh and apprehended accused Bunti and Shanky while they were riding on a stolen motorcycle No.HR-03-R-9248, make Splendor which was found to be stolen by them from Motor Market, Mani Majra, UT/Chandigarh. Both the accused persons were produced before the Hon‟ble Court on 14.07.2016 and obtained 02 days police remand. During interrogation, they disclosed that they have stolen many two wheelers vehicle from the different parts of Chandigarh. Upon this disclosure statement, more six stolen vehicles were recovered at their instance. With the arrest of the above said accused following five cases of vehicle theft have been worked out 42. 13.07.2016 Accused apprehended in case FIR No. 364 dated 25.11.15 u/s 384, 386,120-B IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh and FIR No. 393 dated 23.12.2015 u/s 392, 323, 34 IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh. In a major achievement, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police has succeeded in arresting accused Wasim s/o Abdul Mazid r/o House No.1452/17, Sector-29-B, Chandigarh who was the main accused in case FIR No. 364 dated 25.11.15 u/s 384, 386,120-B IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh and FIR No. 393 dated 23.12.2015 u/s 392, 323, 34 IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh. The facts of the case are that on 25.11.2015, complainant Sh. Dharminder Kumar s/o Sh. Hari Parshad r/o H. No. 3, Block-F, Colony No. 4, Industrial Area, Chandigarh reported that accused Wasim alongwith his accomplices Ajay, Anil @ Bevan, Pankaj @ Khopri demanded money (protection money) from him by threatening him that if he wants to run the shop in this area, he has to pay protection money on regular basis, else they will eliminate him. In this regard, complainant filed a complaint in Crime Branch, Sector-11, Chandigarh. Upon this information, a team of Crime Branch laid a trap near the shop of the complainant. The accused person was regularly calling for money and was saying that he is sending some persons to collect the protection money. On the same day, at around 8.00 PM, complainant received a call for collection of money and the caller asked him to come near Fire Station, Industrial Area, Chandigarh. Acting upon this information, the complainant was asked to handover Rs. 10,000/- to the caller. Thereafter, police party followed the complainant after issuing necessary directions to him. By taking a prompt action, Police party apprehended the accused while he was accepting the demanded money from the complainant. The person disclosed his name as Mukesh Kumar s/o Late Sh. Narad Parshad r/o H.No. 521, Block-F, Colony No. 4, Industrial Area, Chandigarh. During the course of investigation, accused Mukesh Kumar disclosed that he was sent by Wasim and Bevan to collect the protection money from complainant Sh. Dharminder Kumar with the directions to handover the same to them. He disclosed that there are 5-6 persons in their gang headed by Wasim and they all used to shift their residence after a short interval to the different places. During the course of investigation, one another accused Anil @ Bevan was also arrested. Police party raided at different places in order to arrest the remaining accused in this case but every time, they succeeded in escaping. MODUS-OPERANDI He is a most wanted notorious criminal. He alongwith his associates namely Ajay, Anil @ Bevan, Pankaj @ Khopri operate a gang and give threat to local shop-keepers and extort money from them. Crime Branch was continuously searching the main accused and on a tip-off, accused Wasim was arrested by a team of Crime Branch, Sector-11, Chandigarh from market, Sector-28, Chandigarh on 12.07.2016. 43. 15.07.2016 Vehicle lifter gang arrested Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police has succeeded in arresting a vehicle lifter gang namely Bunty Kumar s/o Kashi Nath r/o House No.207, Village Hallo Majra, Chandigarh and Shanky s/o Bahadur r/o House No.490, Ram Darbar, Phase-I, Chandigarh by recovering 07 vehicles (two wheelers) from their possession. On 12.07.2016, on a tip-off, a team of Crime Branch laid a naka near T-Point, dividing road, Sector- 44/45, Chandigarh and apprehended accused Bunti and Shanky while they were riding on a stolen motorcycle No.HR-03-R-9248, make Splendor which was found to be stolen by them from Motor Market, Mani Majra, UT/Chandigarh. Both the accused persons were produced before the Hon‟ble Court on 14.07.2016 and obtained 02 days police remand. During interrogation, they disclosed that they have stolen many two wheelers vehicle from the different parts of Chandigarh. Upon this disclosure statement, more six stolen vehicles were recovered at their instance. With the arrest of the above said accused following five cases of vehicle theft have been worked out 44. 06.08.2016 Crime branch busted Vehicle lifter & snatchers gang

There was a spurt increase in the incidents of vehicle thefts, especially luxury vehicles which prompted the Chandigarh Police to have a brain-storming session. As per the briefings given by the senior officers, a special campaign was organized to arrest the vehicle lifters. In this context, a special team of Crime Branch consisting Inspector Gurmukh Singh, Inspector Krishan Kumar, SI Ashok Kumar and other officials under the close supervision Sh. Pawan Kumar, DSP/Crime was constituted by the orders of senior officers. The team developed a secret information that 02 Hi-tech Inter-state vehicle lifters accused persons namely Ramjeet Singh @ Ram s/o Sh. Manpreet Singh r/o H.No. 17/A, Abchal Nagar near Chander Vihar Nelothi Extention, New Delhi, age-22 yrs and Harpreet Singh @ Smaty s/o Sh. Dhanwant Singh r/o H.No. 12/53/B IInd floor, Tilak Nagar, New Delhi, age-24 yrs were frequently involved in vehicle lifting in the tri-city and they have also stolen one Cruze car from the jurisdiction of Police Station-34,Chandigarh and, they would also come to Chandigarh on 27.07.2016 in order to steal SUV vehicle from U.T., Chandigarh. On 27.07.2016, after developing the information and acting-upon the same, the team of Crime Branch manned a trap near Hallo Majra Light Point, Chandigarh and succeeded in apprehending both the above said accused while they were coming from the side of Zirakpur in a I-20 car having registration No. PB-10-EU-0605, colour white. During inquiry, they could not produce any documents of I-20 car in which they were travelling. The same was taken into possession. During interrogation, they confessed that they had stolen number of luxury vehicles from different places of U.T/Chandigarh. Acting upon the disclosure statement, both the accused persons were arrested in case FIR No. 258 dated 11.07.2016 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-34, Chandigarh in which they had stolen a luxury Cruze Car from H.No. 1048, Sector-44, Chandigarh. They produced before the Illaqa Magistrate, Chandigarh on 28.07.2016 and obtained 06 days police custody remand. During further interrogation, one Fortuner, four Innovas, one I-20, and one Pajero cars worth Rs. 1.10 Crores were also recovered on their instance. With the arrest of above said accused, total 08 luxury vehicles have also been recovered. Further, 02 Innovas, one fortuner and one I-20 vehicles were taken into possession u/s 102 CrPC which are being verifying to establish the ownership of the vehicles. Modus Operandi Both the accused are residents of Delhi and presently unemployed. Both are Hi-tech vehicle lifters and use Hi-tech electronic instruments to steal the luxury vehicles. Accused Harpreet Singh @ Smaty is B. Teh qualified and accused Ramjeet Singh @ Ram is passed upto 10+2. They both have past criminal record and found involved more than two dozen cases of vehicle thefts, registered against them in the different states i.e. Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab and Delhi etc.. They used to come from Delhi to Chandigarh by car for stealing the luxury vehicles from the different part of Chandigarh. After entering in Chandigarh, they identify the vehicles as per the requirements by roaming in different sectors of city. After identifying the vehicle, first they break open the driver side window glass with screw driver and then they opened the bonnet by pulling bonnet button. After opening the bonnet, they removed the battery wire to disconnect the central lock and after that by opening the door, they unlock the steering with a drill machine. They used to move the vehicles few yards and then they fitted ECM and Electronic Scanner (special instruments to change the programming of vehicle) and lock set by removing the original one to make the programming of the vehicle changed. In this way, they succeeded in starting the vehicle and took the same to Delhi and after tempering the same, the sell them in big markets just to make easy money for enjoying lavish life style. Detail of cases previously registered against both the accused in different states under vehicle theft:- Total 16 found registered against accused Ramjeet, which are as:- District Cases Panchkula 09 Patiala 02 Ambala 02 Chandigarh 02 Mohali 01

Total 20 found registered against accused Harpreet Singh @ Smarty, which are as:- District Cases Panchkula 08 Patiala 05 Ambala 04 Rajpura 01 Fatehgarh 01 Mohali 01

Both the accused were again produced in the court on 03.08.2016 and subsequently on 06.08.2016 obtained 03 days more police remand. Further investigation is in progress

Snatcher arrested There was spurt increase in the incidents of gold chain snatching cases in the area of UT/Chandigarh. The senior officers constituted a special squad of the officials of Crime Branch headed by Inspector Ranjit Singh to analyse the modus operandi and to ensure arrest of the criminals involved. In this context, a special campaign was organized to target snatchers. On 05.08.2016, on a tip off, a team of Crime Branch had laid a naka near Kali Mata Mandir, Dhanas, Chandigard and during checking they have arrested on accused namely Sanjeev Kumar @ Deepu s/o Rishi Ral r/o H.No. 1553, DMC, Chandigarh age 31 yrs and recovered one gold chain from his possession. He had snatched the said gold chain near H.No. 1012, Sector-15/B, Chandigarh regarding which a case FIR No. 114 dated 20.01.2016 u/s 379, 356 IPC, Chandigarh was registered in PS-11, Chandigarh. During interrogation, he had confessed that he alongwith his accomplice Shishpal @ Kalu and one another has snatched number of gold chains from the different locations at Chandigarh and used different make bikes for committing the same. He was produced before the Illaqa Magistrate on 06.08.2016 and obtained 04 days police custody remand. During further investigation, his accomplice Shish Pal @ Kalu has also been arrested. So far, with the arrest of both accused, total 03 gold chains and one motor cycle have been recovered and 04 cases have been worked out Modus Operandi

Both the accused belongs to slum areas and are unemployed. They are habitual of playing gambling. Accused Shishpal @ Kalu having previous criminal record and found previously involved in about 15n cases of vehicle and house theft. They used to steal motorcycle and then snatched the gold chains by identifying the alone aged men/women during morning and evening times. They used the money from the stolen gold chains for playing gambling and fulfilling the lust of drinking and smoking etc. Investigation is in progress which expected to be more recoveries of snatching cases. Today, accused will be produced before the Hon‟ble Court and police remand will be obtained. Further investigation is in progress and some more recoveries are likely to be affected.

45. 01.09.2016 One arrested with 760 gram poppy husk, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Suresh Dhawan R/o # 720/30, Block-B, Sector-26, Chandigarh near Gate of Women Khalsa College, Sector 26, Chandigarh and recovered 760 gram of Poppy Husk on 01.09.2016. A Case FIR No. 173, U/S 15 NDPS ACT has been registered in PS-26, Chandigarh. 46. 09.09.2016 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police has succeeded to work out four cases of theft/snatching by arresting two accused Rikky Kumar s/o Jai Kumar r/o H.No. 1288, Sector-52, Chandigarh age 20 yrs and Ravinder Kumar s/o Kanwar Singh r/o H.No. 232, Janta Colony, Sector-25, Chandigarh, age 40 yrs by recovering 02 Laptops and 06 Mobile Phones from their possession.

On 06.09.2016, acting upon a secret information, a team of Crime Branch laid a naka at turn near school, Village-Kajheri, Chandigarh and apprehended one accused namely Rikky Kumar s/o Jai Kumar r/o H.No. 1288, Sector-52, Chandigarh while he was coming from Kajheri Chowk side. During search of the accused, one mobile phone make Black Berry has been recovered from his possession. The recovered mobile found to be stolen in case FIR No. 52 dated 02.02.2015 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-34, Chandigarh by the above said accused person.

On 07.09.2016, accused produced before Hon‟ble Court and obtained two days police remand.

During further interrogation, on 08.09.2016, one more accused namely Ravinder Kumar s/o Kanwar Singh r/o H.No. 232, Janta Colony, Sector-25, Chandigarh, age 40 yrs arrested from T-Point near park, DMC, Chandigarh and recovered one mobile phone make MI from his possession which was snatched in case FIR No. 227/2016 u/s 356,379, 34,411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh. With the arrest of both said accused, 06 mobile phones and 02 laptops have been recovered by solving the 4 cases registered with the different police stations of UT/Chandigarh. Out of recovered 06 mobile phones and 02 laptops, 03 mobile phones and 01 laptop were taken into possession u/s 102 CrPC and efforts are being made to establish that in which cases they were stolen or snatched.

Modus Operandi

Both the above said accused are the resident of local area. They are drugs addict and for the purpose of fulfil their drug requirement; they used to steal mobile phones and laptop from the houses at different sectors in Chandigarh by entering the house by jumping the front wall of the houses during the night time. 47. 09.11.2016 One arrested with 612 injections and capsules of drugs

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Kulwinder Singh R/o # 985, Sector-56, Chandigarh near Lake Road, Dhanas, Chandigarh and recovered 300 injections and 312 capsules/tablets of drugs from his possession on 09.11.2016. A Case FIR No. 208, U/S 22 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-11, Chandigarh.

48. 03.11.2016 Vehicle lifter gang held There was a spurt increase in the incidents of vehicle thefts, especially Bolero and Verna vehicles which prompted Chandigarh Police to have a brain-storming session. As per the briefings given by the senior officers, a special campaign was organized to arrest the vehicle lifters. In this context, a team of Anti Auto Theft Squad of Crime Branch consisting Inspector Gurmukh Singh, SI Ashok Kumar and other officials under the close supervision of Sh. Pawan Kumar, DSP/Crime was constituted by the orders of senior officers. The team developed a secret information that 02 notorious Inter-state vehicle lifters namely Subham Gautam and Vineet Gautam s/o Arun Gautam both r/o H.No. 218, Phase-1, Mohali, Punjab were frequently involved in vehicle lifting in the area of UT/Chandigarh and they have stolen number of Bolero, Varna and other four-wheelers/two-wheeler from the jurisdiction of different police stations of Chandigarh. Upon this information, on a tip of, two teams of Anti Auto Theft Squad headed by Inspector Gurmukh Singh laid nakas separately i.e. one at Naya Gaon Turn and another near Bus Stand, Sector-17, Chandigarh and the team who laid a naka near Naya Gaon succeeded in apprehending accused Subham Gautam while he was coming on a motorcycle having fake registration No. CH01-AX-9848, make Pulsar. On checking, the same was found stolen in case FIR No. 159/2016 of PS-11, Chandigarh and having its original registration No. UK-07-BT-5986. The another team who laid a naka near Bus Stand, Sector-17 also succeeded in apprehending accused Vineet Gautam alongwith his accomplice Wazid with stolen vehicle CH04-J-3700, make white Verna, regarding which FIR No. 145/2016 of PS-19, Chandigarh stands registered. During the preliminary interrogation, both the accused have confessed to be stolen about 40 four wheeler vehicles of different makes especially Bolero and Verna from the different places of UT/Chandigarh. On 01.11.2016, they were produced before the Hon‟ble Court and obtained two days police custody remand. During further interrogation, they disclosed that out of 40 stolen vehicles, they have disposed-off 20 four wheelers to the scrap dealers namely Wazid and his brother Sazid, both are the resident of Saharanpur, UP and the remaining vehicles are parked at the different parking lots of the tri-city. With the arrest of above said accused, so far, total 14 vehicles (11 four wheelers and 03 two wheelers) worth Rs. 75 lacs have been recovered at their instances. 49. 22.11.2016 Crime Branch of Chandigarh police arrested Nishant Sharma @ Sonu R/O # 2186, Pipli Wala Town, Mani Majra, Chandigarh, near Uppal Marble Flats, Mani Majra, Chandigarh on 21-11-2016, and recovered 4.5 grams of heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No. 245, U/S 21 NDPS has been registered in PS-MM, Chandigarh.

50. 25.11.2016 Crime Branch of Chandigarh police arrested Avinash Kumar resident of DMC, Sector-38, Chandigarh, near Institute of development and communication Sector-38, Chandigarh on 24-11- 2016, and recovered 5.5 gram of Heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No. 351, U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-39, Chandigarh.

Crime Branch of Chandigarh police arrested Sanjay Kumar resident of Sector-25 D, Chandigarh, near dividing road Sector 39/56 Chandigarh on 24-11-2016, and recovered 6 gram of Heroin from his possession. A Case FIR No. 352, U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-39, Chandigarh. 51. 28.11.2016 4 gram heroin recovered Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Sonu Goyal resident of Gobind Vihar, Baltana, Zirakpur, near Udham Singh Bhawan, Sector-44, Chandigarh on 28.11.2016 and recovered 4 gram heroin from his possession. A case FIR No. 417, U/s 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-34, Chandigarh.

52. 02.12.2016 Accused arrested and recovered 40 gms Heroin from his possession valuing Rs. 2.40 lacs approximately. The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police succeeded in apprehending an accused Gaurav Jaggi s/o Ajay Jaggi r/o H.No. 170, Sun City Colony, Ropar, Punjab age 20 yrs and recovered 40 gms Heroin from his possession valuing Rs. 2.40 lacs approximately. On 01.12.2016, during a special drive, a team of Crime Branch consisting SI Ashok Kumar and other officials under the supervision of Inspector Gurmukh Singh were on patrolling and vehicle checking duty near Mandi Ground Ram Darbar, Chandigarh. Suddenly, the team noticed one pedestrian coming from the side of Phase-2, Ram Darbar and on seeing the police party, the said person tried to escape, adopted another way and also take out something from his pocket and tried to throw it away, but with the prompt action, the team members apprehended him. On enquiry, he disclosed his name as Gaurav Jaggi s/o Ajay Jaggi r/o H.No. 170, Sun City Colony, Ropar, Punjab. On checking the polythene which he was trying to threw, 40 gms Brownish Sticky material (Heroin) had been recovered. A case FIR No. 317 dated 01.12.2016 u/s 21 NDPS Act, PS-31, Chandigarh was registered in this regard. During interrogation, he disclosed that he is a student of B. Tech and habitual of consuming drugs from the last 03 years. He used to bring these contrabands from Delhi and Punjab for selling the same to the students of different colleges of tricity. He further disclosed that he also sold some quantity of drugs to the drug pedlars who further sell the same to drug addicts.

53. 05.01.2017 One arrested with 500 Gram of Ganja

Chandigarh Police (Crime Branch) arrested Istekar Ahmed R/o # 1048, Mohalla Mori Gate, MM, Chandigarh near Shani Mandir, MM, Chandigarh and recovered 500 Gram of Ganja from his possession. A Case FIR No.07 U/S 20 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-MM, Chandigarh.

54. 06.01.2017 Four arrested and cases of robberies, snatchings and auto thefts solved In a major breakthrough of 2017 Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested following persons on 04.01.2017.

1. Amrit Kumar@ Ganja S/o Dalip Singh R/o C-73 Village Jagatpura ph-2 Mohali. 2. Gurpreet Singh @ Sanju S/o Sh. Surjit Singh House No. 12 Vill Khuda Lahora Chd.

3. Raghav S/o Bhupindr Singh Rana R/o Village Khastal Distt. Tihri Gharwal U.K.

4. Vikram Singh @ Vikcy S/o Bhupindr Singh Rana R/o Village Khastal Distt. Tihri Gharwal U.K.

On 4.1.2017 a secret information has been received that 4 boys who were involved in several cases of robberies, snatchings and auto thefts will get together in Botanical garden Dhanas, on this information the team was constituted and all the above four boys were apprehended and from their possession deadly arms were recovered. During the interrogation of these accused it has been revealed that they are involved in several cases of robberies, snatchings and vehicle thefts in the area of Chandigarh and from them Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch is able to solve 15 cases. Out of these 15 cases 3 are of robbery, 4 of snatching, 8 of auto theft. From them 7 mobile phones, two activas and 6 stolen motorcycles were recovered. The modus operandi of these criminals is that they used to first steal a bike and on that stolen bike they used to rob and snatch bags and cash from the area of Chandigarh.

55. 06.01.2017 Two arrested and nine cases of vehicle theft solved Anti Auto Theft Squad of Crime Branch has succeeded in arresting two accused persons namely Rajdeep Singh s/o Raghbir Singh r/o Village-Ghala Kalan, PS-Sadar Moga, District-Moga, Punjab and Sahibdeep Singh @ Sahib s/o Jagtar Singh r/o Village-Saidpur, District-Mohali, Punjab and with their arrest nine cases of vehicle theft have been worked out.

On 31.12.2016, on a tip of, a team of Anti Auto Theft Cell of Crime Branch headed by Inspector Gurmukh Singh under the close supervision of Sh. Pawan Kumar, DSP/Crime laid a naka near T-Point, Sector-2/11, Chandigarh. During checking, the team apprehended above said accused persons alongwith a stolen two wheeler bearing registration No. PB-03-AJ-0351, make- Aviator while they were coming from the side of Village-Khuda Alisher, Chandigarh. On further checking, the said two wheeler vehicle found to be stolen vide FIR No. 220 dated 28.05.2016 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-17, Chandigarh. Both the accused were arrested in the said case.

During interrogation, they disclosed that they have stolen number of vehicles (four wheelers and two wheelers) from the different part of Chandigarh as well as Punjab. On 01.01.2017, upon their disclosure statement, both were produced before the Hon‟ble District Court and obtained 02 days police custody remand for further investigation.

During the course of further investigation, 09 stolen two wheeler vehicles and 02 four wheelers (cars) were recovered at their instance which led to solving of 09 cases of auto theft registered with different police stations of the city, Chandigarh and Punjab Besides this, 03 M/Cycles have also been taken into police possession u/s 102 Cr.P.C, which are being verifying to ascertain their ownership.

Modus Operandi

Both the accused are alcoholic addicts. Accused Rajdeep Singh is working as scooter mechanic and accused Sahibdeep Singh @ Sahib is working as commission agent in DTO Office, Mohali, Punjab for preparing driving license/RC and other documents of the general public. They used to steal four/two wheelers from the different part of city and parked the same at different places. After that, they were trying to sell the same to the gullible people by preparing the fake documents. Mechanic Rajdeep also used the parts of the stolen vehicles to repair and put spare parts in the vehicles of general public having customers of him.

On 03.01.2017, both the accused were again produced before the Hon‟ble District Court and obtained further 02 days police custody remand. The investigation is going on which may help to work out more cases of vehicle thefts.

56. 17.01.2017 Two arrested under NDPS Act

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Mehraj R/o Lal Kothi, Room No. 1620/B, Naya Gaon, Mohali, (PB) near backside Civil Secretariat, Sector-1, Chandigarh and recovered 110 gram of Charas from his possession. A case FIR No. 08, U/S 20 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-03, Chandigarh. Chandigarh Police arrested Sukhwinder Singh R/o # 209, Manki Colony, Samrala, Distt. Ludhiana, (PB) near backside Neelam Cinema, Sector 17, Chandigarh and recovered 52.4 gram smack and 8 Injections of drugs from his possession. A case FIR No. 14, U/S 21, 22 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-17, Chandigarh. 57. 08.02.2017 In a major breakthrough Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested following persons on 6.2.2017. 1. Budh Ram S/o Pooran Chand r/o # 727/5, BDC, Sec.26, Chd. 2. Lakhan S/o Dharam Pal R/o # 726/24, BDC, Sec.26, Chd. 3. Rakesh Kumar @ Chatur S/o Kamal Sharma r/o # 711/26, BDC, Sec.26, Chd.

On 6.2.2017 a secret information has been received that 3 boys who were involved in several cases of burglary, snatchings and auto lifting are presently roaming in the area of Police Station Sector 26, Chandigarh, on this information the team was constituted and all the above said persons were apprehended. During the interrogation of these accused it has been revealed that they are involved in several cases of burglary, snatchings and vehicle lifting in the area of Chandigarh and from them Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch is able to solve 8 cases. Out of these 8 cases, 3 are of snatching, 2 of auto theft, 2 of house theft and 1 of burglary.

The modus operandi of these criminals is that they used to first steal two wheelers and on that stolen bike they used to snatch articles on these stolen bikes from the area of Chandigarh. While stealing from houses they used to enter by breaking open the locks and on entering these houses they used to steel valuables from these houses. All these accused have tainted past and have been arrested several times before. 58. 09.02.2017 2 Arrest in Auto Theft Anti Auto Theft Squad of Crime Branch has succeeded in arresting two accused persons namely Naresh Kumar @ Kancha s/o Ram Lal r/o H.No. 1310, Village-Burail, Chandigarh and Manoj Kumar @ Chujja s/o Mohan Lal r/o H.No. 1713, first floor, DMC, Chandigarh with their arrest eight cases of vehicle theft have been worked out. On 05.02.2017, on a tip of, a team of Anti Auto Theft Cell of Crime Branch headed by Inspector Gurmukh Singh under the close supervision of Sh. Pawan Kumar, DSP/Crime laid a naka near Bus Stop, DMC-Dhanas Road Chandigarh. During checking, the team apprehended above said accused persons alongwith a stolen two wheeler bearing registration No. CH-01-AE-0246, make-Bajaj Pulsar while they were coming from the side of Village-Dhanas, Chandigarh. On further checking the registration certificate recovered from them, the said two wheeler vehicle found to be stolen vide FIR No. 36 dated 04.02.2017 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-34, Chandigarh. Both the accused were arrested in the said case. During interrogation, they disclosed that they have stolen number of vehicles (two wheelers and cycles) from the different part of Chandigarh. On 06.02.2017, upon their disclosure statement, both were produced before the Hon‟ble District Court and obtained 03 days police custody remand for further investigation. During the course of further investigation, 09 stolen two wheeler vehicles and 10 cycles were recovered at their instance which led to solving of 08 cases of auto theft registered with different police stations of the city, Chandigarh. The detail of these cases is as under:-

Sr. Case FIR No. Date, u/s & PS Recovered No. Vehicle FIR No. 36 dated 04.02.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS- Motor Cycle 34, Chandigarh FIR No. 136 dated 07.04.2016 u/s 379,411, PS-34, 02 Motor Cycles Chandigarh FIR No. 40 dated 28.01.2017 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS- Motor Cycle 31, Chandigarh FIR No. 381 dated 21.10.2016 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS- Motor Cycle 34, Chandigarh FIR No. 179 dated 14.08.2016 U/s 379,411 IPC, PS- Motor Cycle 19, Chandigarh FIR No. 448 dated 28.12.2016 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS- Motor Cycle 34, Chandigarh FIR No. 41 dated 04.02.2017 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS- Motor Cycle 36, Chandigarh FIR No. 09 dated 10.01.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS- Motor Cycle 17, Chandigarh.

Besides this, 10 By-cycles have also been recovered from them and taken into police possession, which are being verifying to ascertain their ownership.

Modus Operandi

Both the accused are heavy drug addicts. Accused Naresh Kumar @ Kancha is found previously involved in 09 cases and Manoj Kumar @ Chujja in 07 cases of robbery, burglary, snatching, house/vehicles theft, respectively. Accused Naresh Kumar @ Kancha working as helper in Apni Mandi with his uncle and accused Manoj Kumar @ Chujja is working as salesman. They used to steal two wheelers and by-cycles from the different part of city and parked the stolen motorcycles in the parking lots, after rejoicing riding. They sold the stolen by-cycles and sometimes parts of the stolen two wheelers to the unknown innocent people and street scrap dealers at very cheaper rates to fulfil their daily needs.

On 09.02.2017, both the accused were produced before the Hon‟ble Court and sent to judicial custody.

Profile of the accused No. 1

Name Naresh Kumar @ Kancha Father Name Ram Lal Present Address H.No. 1310, Village-Burail, Chandigarh. Occupation Helper in Apni Mandi Age 22 yrs Qualification 8th passed

Profile of the accused No. 2

Name Manoj Kumar @ Chujja Lal Father Name Mohan Present Address H.No. 1713, first floor, DMC, Chandigarh Occupation Salesman Age 25 yrs Qualification Matriculation

59. 11.02.2017 2 Arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Amit resident of Sector-45-B, Chandigarh near Dev Samaj Collage, Sector-45, Chandigarh and recovered 70 gram of Charas from his possession. A case FIR No. 39, U/S 20 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-34, Chandigarh.

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Anuj Sharma resident of Distt. Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, near Sector 42/53 dividing road, Chandigarh and recovered 65 gram of Charas from his possession. A case FIR No. 51, U/S 20 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-36, Chandigarh. 60. 16.02.2017 One arrested in Murder Case A Case FIR No. 14 date 9.02.2017, U/S 307, 34 IPC added 302 IPC has been registered in Police Station Sector-03, Chandigarh on the complaint of Sh. Adamya Singh S/o Sh. Kameshwar Singh Rathore R/o Village Kalontha, P.S. Jubbal, Distt. Shimla (HP) against Balraj Singh Randhawa S/o Manjeet Singh Randhawa R/o # 55, Akal Ashram Colony, Sector-77, Sohana, Mohali (PB) and Harmehtab Singh S/o Gureshwarpreet R/o back side Hunter Zone, Radewala Farm, Landra, Mohali(PB). Today with the sincere efforts of Chandigarh Police, accused Harmehtab Singh @ Freed S/o Sh. Gureshwarpreet Singh Village Rarawala, PO Ghudani Kalan, Tehsil Payal, Distt. Ludhiana, Punjab has been arrested from Haridwar, Uttrakhand. Today, the accused is being produced before Illaqa Magistrate for police remand. Sincere efforts are being made to nab the remaining accused Balraj Singh Randhawa above noted and 27 raiding parties have been sent to different places to raid all the possible hideouts of the culprit in the tri-city as well as outside the tri-city. The investigation of this case is being conducted on merits under the close supervision of senior officers. Police teams are working round the clock to nab the culprits. Every inclusive or exclusive information is most welcome on this numbers of Sh. Ram Gopal DSP/Central at 9779580914 and SHO PS-03 Chandigarh at 9779580933 regarding this crime.

61. 20.02.2017 Crime Branch crack several cases of burglary, theft and auto lifting In a major breakthrough Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested following persons on 19.2.2017

1. Dhan Kumar S/o Sh. Rishi Pal r/o # 13, Dhanas, Chandigarh. 2. Ram Milan S/o sh. Lal Ji r/o # 235, Dhanas, Chandigarh 3. Ashif S/o Sh. Sahid r/o # 52-53, Kachi Colony, Dhanas, Chandigarh. 4. Pardeep S/o Ram Niwas R/o # 619, Kachi Colony, Dhanas, Chandigarh.

On 19.2.2017 a secret information was received that 4 boys who were involved in several cases of burglary, theft and auto lifting are presently roaming in the area of Chandigarh, on this information the team was constituted and all the above said persons were apprehended. During the interrogation of these accused it has been revealed that they are involved in several cases of burglary, theft and vehicle lifting in the area of Chandigarh and from them Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch is able to solve 5 cases. Out of these 5 cases, 4 are of theft, and 1 of burglary. All the accused have tainted past, one of the accused Dhan Kumar is involved in a murder case, accused Ashif in kidnapping case and other two are in the cases of theft. Five cases were solved with their arrest.

62. 24.02.2017 Crime Branch crack several cases of robbery and snatching

In a major breakthrough Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested following persons on 23.2.2017.

1. Vikas @ Bunty S/o Inder Pal R/o 20 Singa Devi Colony Naya Gaon Mohali. 2. Ankit Kumar S/o Arun Shahu R/o 953 Back Side Govt. School Hallo Majra Chandigarh. 3. Monu S/o Kishan Lal R/o 265, Hallo Majra Chandigarh.

On 23.2.2017 a secret information was received that 3 boys who were involved in several cases of robbery and snatching are presently living somewhere in the area of Hallo Majra, Chandigarh and recently one of the accused namely Vikash @ Bunty was involved in robbing a Army man in Ram Darbar Chandigarh, on this information the team was constituted and all the above said persons were apprehended from Ram Darbar, Chandigarh.

During the interrogation of these accused it has been revealed that the accused Monu has a previous criminal record and was arrested in a NDPS case. With their arrest 4 cases were solved. Out of these 4 cases, 1 of robbery, and 3 are of snatching.

The cases solved with their arrest are as under:

1. FIR No. 77 dated 21.02.2017 U/S 392,411 IPC PS-31, U.T, Chandigarh. 2. FIR No. 78 dated 21.02.2017 U/S 379,356 IPC PS-31, U.T, Chandigarh 3. FIR No. 224 dated 03.10.2016 U/S 379, 356, 34, 411 IPC PS-36, U.T, Chandigarh. 4. FIR No. 80 dated 23.02.2017 U/S 379, 420,411 IPC PS-31, U.T, Chandigarh

In case FIR No. 77 uniform, bag and id cards of complainant Army man were recovered, though one of the accused in this case was arrested by Police Station Sec.31, Chandigarh with the help of the complainant and was sent to judicial custody on 22.2.2017.

63. 07.03.2017 Two arrested with motor cycle having fake number plate Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Ashok Kumar R/o Village Biralia, Distt. Shamli (UP) and Rajesh Kumar R/o Village Khanur Kalan, Distt. Shamli (UP) near under bridge, Sector 11/15, Chandigarh and recovered stolen Splendor Motor Cycle having fake number plate HR05-AD-3271 along with fake documents. A case FIR No. 45, U/S 471, 473, 474, 411 IPC has been registered in PS- 11, Chandigarh. 64. 13.03.2017 Two arrested by Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch In a major breakthrough Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested following persons on 13.3.2017

Jeetu S/o Raj Kumar r/o # 58, Vill. Dhurayai, Distt. Rampur, UP

Manvir @ Manejer S/o Sh. Sher Singh Vill. Lahera ka Mangar, PS Hayat nagar, Muradabad,

On 13.3.2017 a secret information has been received that 2 boys who were involved in several cases of robberies, snatchings are roaming in the area of Sec.34, Chandigarh, on this information the team was constituted and all the above two boys were apprehended During the interrogation of these accused it has been revealed that they are involved in several cases of robberies and snatchings in the area of Chandigarh and from them Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch is able to solve 4 cases. Out of these 4 cases 2 are of robbery and 2 of snatching were recovered. The modus operandi of these criminals is that they used to rob people on the knife point.

The cases solved with their arrest are as under:

FIR No. 38 dated 12.3.2017 U/S 392,411 IPC PS-26, Chandigarh FIR No. 48 dated 12.3.2017 U/S 392,411 IPC PS-MM, Chandigarh FIR No. 251 dated 2.12.2016 U/S 356,379,411 IPC PS-MM, Chandigarh FIR No. 19 dated 23.2.2017 U/S 379,356,411 IPC PS-19, Chandigarh

65. 15.03.2017 Three arrested in two wheeler theft and Snatching There was a spurt increase in the incidents of two wheeler theft & snatching in the City which prompted the Chandigarh Police to have a brain-storming session. As per the briefings given by the senior officers, a special campaign was organized to target the auto lifters & snatchers. In this context, Crime Branch has developed an input that an interstate gang belongs to Uttar Pradesh is active in the area of tricity, especially in UT/Chandigarh for committing the incidents of vehicle thefts and snatchings from the last 8/9 months. Upon this, different teams of Anti Auto Theft Cell of Crime Branch under the close supervision of Sh. Pawan Kumar, DSP/Crime were deputed. On 07.03.2017, on a tip of, a team of Anti Auto Cell headed by Inspector Gurmukh Singh consisting SI Ashok Kumar, HC Kanwar Pal and other officials laid a naka under over bridge of Sector 11/15 dividing road and during checking, the team apprehended two persons namely Ashok Kumar @ Bellu @ Punjabi s/o Jaipal r/o Village-Biralian, PS-Jhinjhana, District-Shamli, UP and Rajesh Kumar s/o Janardhan r/o Village-Khanpur Kalan, PS-Jhinjhana, District-Shamli, UP alongwith a Motor Cycle bearing registration No. HR-05-AD-3271, make- Splender while they were coming from Sector- 15, Chandigarh. On further checking, the registration number of the said Motor Cycle found fake and on further verification the same is found stolen from Karnal in case FIR No. 654 dated 15.08.2016 u/s 379 IPC, PS-Civil Lines, Karnal, Haryana. The actual registration number of this motorcycle is HR- 05-AC-0136. In this regard, a case FIR No. 45 dated 07.03.2017 u/s 471, 473. 474 & 411 IPC was registered in Police Station-Sector-11, Chandigarh. During the interrogation, both the accused have disclosed that they have had snatched number of gold chains and also stolen two-wheelers in Chandigarh as well as Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and other parts of India. On 08.03.2017, upon their disclosure statement, both were produced before the Hon‟ble Court and obtained 03 days police remand for further investigation. One of their co- accused namely Dev Kohli @ Hunny s/o Jai Narayan Kohli r/o Village-Alaudeenpur, PS-JhinJhana, District-Shamli (UP) was also arrested on 10.03.2017. After the recovery of some gold chains and stolen vehicles on their instance, they were again produced before the Hon‟ble Court on 12.03.2017 and obtained further police remand upto 15.03.2017. During further investigation, total 21 gold chains and 02 stolen two-wheelers have been recovered at their instance which led to solving of 24 cases (21 gold chain + 03 two-wheelers) registered with different police stations of the city. Modus Operandi All three accused belongs to Bawaria gang of Distt Shamli (UP) and used to commit crime in all over India. They are professional criminals and having past criminal record in Haryana & Delhi. Accused Ashok Kumar is involved in more than 40 cases in Delhi, 12 in Gurgaon and declared Proclaimed Offender in some of the cases. They are also involved at other places like Ludhiana, Sonipat, Muzaffar Nagar, Panchkula, Mohali and also involved with their associates Chennai, Bangluru and many more places in India. Before proceeding to Chandigarh, first they pay obeisance before their spiritual deity to be successful in their activities. Thereafter, they all switched- off their mobiles and used to travel in boats from their villages to cross Yamuna River to avoid main roads and to hide their identifications from Haryana and UP Police. Thereafter, they entered in the tricity and after committing snatchings and vehicle theft, sometimes, they stayed in the rented accommodations in the different locations of the tricity. After committing 5/6 incidents, they return to their villages and a gap of 4/5 days, they again adopt the same modus-operandi. In Chandigarh, they specially struck the Southern parts of the City in order to leave the city after committing the crime. They used to target specially the pedestrian ladies wearing gold chains and by making excuse of asking the location of a particular place, they convert the concentration of that ladies and then suddenly get close to the target to snatch their gold chains and flee on Motorcycle after snatching the gold chains. Thereafter, they disposed-off the snatched gold chains to the local jeweler namely Chattar Singh who is presently lodged in Ambala Jail. His Production Warrant has been obtained for 15.03.2017. After the arrest of local jeweler Chattar Singh, they were searching for new receiver for disposing-off the snatched chains but failing which, they hide these chains at different places. They are alcoholic and drug addicts and spent the earned money by illegal means on these activities and to fulfill their other day-to-day demands. 66. 16.03.2017 One arrested for illegally possessing fire arms and fake registration number plate Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Arshpreet Singh R/o # 110, Sector 91, Mohali (PB) near Singh Confectionary, Sector-35, Chandigarh and recovered one revolver and 6 live cartridges along with BMW car having fake No. CH01-AQ-8125 on 14.03.2017. A case FIR No. 78, U/S 473 IPC and 28 Arms Act has been registered in PS-36, Chandigarh. 67. 22.03.2017 Wanted Proclaimed Offender arrested by Crime Branch In a major breakthrough Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested Sonu Kumar s/o Sh. Mishri Lal r/o Vill. Manpur, PO-Utrahas, PS Kheron Distt. Rai Bareli (UP), Present address: Vill. Phabat, Zirakpur, Distt. Mohali, age 25 years on 22.3.2017. On 22.3.2017, secret information was received that Sonu is having one stolen car in his possession and on the basis of this information he was apprehended from 41/42/53/54 Chowk, Chandigarh and from his possession one Maruti car No. PB10AJ-0864 white colour which he has stolen from the area of Sector 41, Chandigarh was recovered. Sonu has tented past and he has been arrested several times by Chandigarh Police, but after the bail, he did not appear before the court, he has been convicted in two cases and was declared Proclaimed Offender in 4 cases which are still pending against him in the District Court of Chandigarh. The detail of cases in which he was arrested are as: Sr. FIR No. Date U/S PS Remarsk No. 1. 66 4.3.17 379,411 IPC 39 Car Theft 2. 157 8.5.11 381,411 IPC 31 Arrested as PO 3. 19 28.1.12 381,411 IPC IA Arrested as PO 4. 126 19.3.13 454,380,411 IPC 39 Arrested as PO 5. 80 17.2.14 411 IPC MM Arrested as PO

68. 27.03.2017 One arrested with 1 KG & 100 gram of Opium Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Ramjani R/o H No. 40, Village Haranpur, Distt. Aligarh (UP) from backside Civil Secretariat, Chandigarh and recovered 1 Kg & 100 gram of opium from his possession. A Case FIR No. 47, U/S 18 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-03, Chandigarh. 69. 30.03.2017 Accused arrested and several burglary snatching cases solved In another major breakthrough Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested following persons on 27.3.2017

1. Omkar @ Gorila S/o Sh. Santosh Kumar R/o # 12, Vill. Faida, Chandigarh. Age 20 years

2. Kashi Kumar Verma S/o Sh. Bhola Nath Maurya R/o # 9 Vill. Jagatpura, near Gurudwara Mohali, Age 24 years

3. Pardeep Kumar S/o Sh. Shiv Parsad R/o # 847, Vill. Faida, Chandigarh. Age 21 years.

4. Mithun S/o Guddu Mishra R/O Vill Jagatpura Near Gurudwara Distt. Mohali, Age 19 years.

On the basis of secret information 4 boys who were involved in several cases of burglary, snatchings are residing in the area of Jagatpura and Faidan Distt. Moahli and these boys are involved in recent burglaries that took place on 26.3.2017 in the area of Police Station Sector 31, Chandigarh. On this information Omkar @ Gorila, Kashi Kumar Verma and pardeep Kumar were arrested on 27.3.2017 and Mithun was arrested on 28.3.2017 from the area of Sector 47, Chandigarh.

During the interrogation of these accused it has been revealed that they are involved in several cases of burglaries and snatchings mostly in the area of Police Station Sector 31, Chandigarh and from them Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch is able to solve 7 cases. Out of these 7 cases 4 are of burglary, 2 of snatching and 1 of car theft were solved.

The modus operandi of these criminals is that one of the boy Onkar @ Gorila work as a car washer in different houses in the area of Sector 47, Chandigarh and whenever he found any locked house in the vicinity, he along with his associates used to break into these houses for theft.

The cases solved with their arrest are as under:

1. FIR No. 110 dated 16.6.2015 U/S 379,356,411 IPC PS-19, Chandigarh

2. FIR No. 25 dated 22.1.2017 U/S 379,356,411 IPC PS-31, Chandigarh

3. FIR No. 32 dated 2.2.2017 U/S 379,411 IPC PS-39, Chandigarh

4. FIR No. 87 dated 26.3.2017 U/S 379,411 IPC PS-39, Chandigarh

5. FIR No. 85 dated 26.2.2017 U/S 380,457,411 IPC PS-31, Chandigarh

6. FIR No. 114 dated 26.3.2017 U/S 380,457,411 IPC PS-31, Chandigarh

7. FIR No. 115 dated 26.3.2017 U/S 380,457,411 IPC PS-31, Chandigarh

All these accused were produced in the court and all are further remanded to judicial custody.

70. 01.04.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act

Crime branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Bhanu R/o # 717/29, BDC, Sector-26, Chandigarh near shastri Nagar light point towards Kishangarh slip road, Chandigarh and recovered 7.9 Kg of Ganja from his possession. A case FIR No. 36, U/S 20 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-IT Park, Chandigarh.

71. 20.04.2017 One arrested in Burglary case In a major breakthrough Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested one high profile burglar namely Pawan Hooda S/o Late Sh. Ramesh Kumar # 873, Ph.11, Mohali. On 15.4.2017 a secret information was received that one person namely Pawan Hooda who is involved in several cases of burglaries and who recently vandalized one ATM at Phase 11, Mohali, break upon the locks of Uttam Sweet, Sec.46, Chandigarh, Bansal Jewellers, Sec.46, Chandigarh, Indian Jewellers and is again preparing for burglary in Sector-45, Chandigarh. On the basis of this information, the said Pawas Hooda was arrested from the dividing road of Sector 45-46, Chandigarh alongwith one Sakoda Rapid car No. CH01AW-7056. During the interrogation of the accused he confessed his involvement in the recent burglaries and also disclosed that with stolen amount he used to live luxurious life. He was regular visitor of Night Club at Mohali and he has spent almost all the money on his lavish life style. Modus Operandi The modus operandi of the accused as disclosed by him is that he used to identified the locked houses during the day and target these houses during the night by break open their locks, in case of shops he used to visit that market and by ascertaining the sale of the shop he then target these shop during the night. Five (5) cases were solved with the arrest of the accused are as under: 1. FIR No. 96 dated 11.4.2017 U/S 457,380,411 IPC PS-34, U.T, Chandigarh. 2. FIR No. 102 dated 13.4.2017 U/S 457,380,411 IPC PS-34, U.T, Chandigarh 3. FIR No. 372 dated 24.12.2016 U/S 380,411 IPC PS-39, U.T, Chandigarh 4. FIR No. 214 dated 6.6.2016 U/S 457,380,411 IPC PS-34, U.T, Chandigarh 5. FIR No. 55 dated 9.3.2017 U/S 454,380,411 IPC PS-I.Area, U.T, Chandigarh One case in which he has sabotaged the ATM of SBI Bank, Ph.11, Mohali belong to Mohali Police. 72. 27.04.2017 Achievement of Best Police Unit in Country by winning most prestigious National Intellectual Property Award-2017 for Enforcement of Intellectual Property (IP) held at New Delhi

Today i.e. 27.04.2017, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police added another feather in the cap of Chandigarh Police by winning National Intellectual Property Award-2017 in the category of “Best Police Unit for Enforcement of IP”. The Indian Intellectual Property Office confers National Intellectual Property (IP) Awards on outstanding innovators, organisations and companies in the fields of patents, designs, trademarks and geographical indications on the occasion of World IP Day every year. Intellectual Property Office, India under the department of Industrial Policy & Promotion of Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India selected Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police for the outstanding contribution to Intellectual Property and this award is first time conferred to any police Unit/department in India. For the purpose of better implementation of Copy Right Act-1967, during last three years-2014-15-16, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police registered total 12 cases under the different sections of this act. In recognition of this significant achievement, Sh. Pawan Kumar, DSP/Crime on behalf of Chandigarh Police was felicitated with cash award Rs. 1,00,000/-, a trophy and citation by Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Hon‟ble Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of India at a function held on the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day, jointly organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) at Hotel Lalit, Connaught Place, New Delhi.

73. 04.05.2017 In a major breakthrough Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested following persons on 4.5.2017. 1. Lucky @ Badshah S/o Sh. Dharampal R/o # P-170, Tin Colony, Sec.52, Chandigarh, age 20 years

2. Vicky @ Tharra S/o Nanne Lal R/o # 22, Gali No.3, Vill. Burail, Chd. Age 19 years.

3. Guddu S/o sh. Asha Ram R/o # 1397-B, New Complex, Dhanas, Chandigarh, Age 19 years.

4. Balwant S/o Khempal R/o # 952B, new Complex, Dhanas, Chd. Age 19 years

5. Lucky S/o Pappu Ram R/o # P-925, Tin Colony, Sec.52, Chd. Age 20 years.

6. Gopal @ Chopra s/o Om Parkash R/o # 1218-B, Housing Board Colony, Dhanas, Chd. Age 19 years

7. Ankit S/o Sh. Balram Moriya R/o # 1972A, New Flats Complex, Dhanas, Chd.

On 4.5.2017 a secret information was received that “7 boys who were involved in several cases of Dacoity, Robbery, snatching and vehicle lifting are presently planning to loot a petrol pump in Sector 39, Chandigarh and the planning is being made near the tube well in the jungle area of Sector 25”. On this information a police party was formed and all the above mentioned accused were apprehended from the said place with deadly weapons. On their interrogation all of them have confessed their involvement in approximately 60 crime committed by them in tri city. In these 60 crime they confessed their involvement in looting and snatching people and also committed several vehicle thefts from Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula.

Modus operandi The group of these boys are in habit of drinking and for drinking they used to rob, loot and snatch belonging of innocent people by stabbing and beating them. In three cases the persons were badly stabbed. Before committing the crime of dacoity, robbery and snatching they used to steal vehicles and on these stolen vehicles they used to roam around in Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula to look for their targets, after finding their target, they used to beat him with sticks and if any person resist they don‟t hesitate from even stabbing him. On further interrogation and investigation total 24 cases were worked out. Out of which 7 are of robbery and dacoity, 9 are of vehicle theft and 8 are of snatching. The cases solved with their arrest are as under: Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS No. 1. 105/18.3.16 395 IPC 34 2. 90/4.5.17 399,402 IPC 19 3. 108/17.4.17 397,34 IPC 34 4. 131/3.5.17 397,34, 411 IPC 34 5. 65/26.4.17 392,34 IPC Maloya 6. 132/5.5.17 382 IPC 34 7. 34/28.4.17 382,34 IPC 49 8. 4/2.1.17 379,411 IPC MM 9. 55/23.4.17 379,411 IPC Sarangpur 10. 131/30.7.16 379,411 IPC MJ 11. 564/25.11.15 379,411 IPC 34 12. 153/17.3.15 379,411 IPC 34 13. 86/23.3.17 379,411 IPC 39 14. 59/3.5.17 397,411 IPC 19 15. 58/4.5.17 379,411 IPC Sarangpur 16. 108/19.4.17 356,379,411 IPC 39 17. 374/25.12.16 356,379,411 IPC 39 18. 223/23.12.16 356,379 IPC 11 19. 26/4.2.17 356,379,511,34 IPC MM 20. 57/4.3.17 379,411 IPC 17 21. 66/15.4.17 379,356 IPC 11 22. 89/4.5.17 379,411 IPC 11 23. 57/18.4.17 379,356,411 IPC 3 24. 146/2.6.16 379,411 IPC 39

74. 13.05.2017 One arrested for Gambling and cash Rs. 39,460/- recovered

Crime branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Rakesh Kumar R/o # 60 Vill- Kishan Garg, Chandigarh, while he was playing Satta at Shivalik Park Mani Majra and recovered cash Rs.39,460/-. A case FIR No. 87, U/S 13A-3-67 Gambling Act has been registered in PS-Mani Majra, Chandigarh. Accused bailed out. Investigation of the case is in progress.

75. 20.05.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act

Crime Branch of Chandigarh police arrested Sahil Kumar resident of Sector-22, Chandigarh, near Civil Hospital, Sector-22-B, Chandigarh and recovered 21 gram heroin from his possession. A case FIR No. 113 U/s 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-17, Chandigarh. Investigation of the case is in progress.

76. 30.06.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Chandigarh Police Crime Branch arrested Amarjit Singh R/o # 1271, Deep Complex, Hallo Majra, Chandigarh arrested from Kacha Rasta, Hallo Majra, Chandigarh and recovered 70 Drug injection from his possession. A case FIR no. 206, U/S 22 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-31, Chandigarh. Investigation of the case is in progress. 77. 13.07.2017 Three arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Kuldip Singh @ Deepu age 29 Years R/o Punjabi Brahman Mohalla, Ismailabad, Distt. Kurukshetra, (HR) from Sector 22, Chandigarh and recovered 115.4 Gm Heroin and 14 injections of Buphrinorpine drugs from his possession. A case FIR No. 185, U/S 21, 22 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-17, Chandigarh. Investigation of the case is in progress.

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Bittu R/o # 2474, Sector-28/C, Chandigarh near Verka Booth, Sector-28, Chandigarh and recovered 60 injections of Buphrenorpine & Pheniramine Maleate drugs from his possession. A case FIR No. 134, U/S 22 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-26, Chandigarh.

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Rohit Singla R/o H.No. 984, near Khera Mandir, Burail, Chandigarh near Rehri Market, Sector 45, Chandigarh and recovered 200 Gm Charas and 13 injections of drugs from his possession. A case FIR No. 234, U/S 20, 22 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-34, Chandigarh. 78. 13.07.2017 Yesterday i.e. on 12.7.2017 Five snatching were reported in the area of Police Station-39 and in all these snatching ladies were targeted. In these snatchings the purses of the ladies were snatched which were containing cash, mobiles, other important articles and documents. On the basis of the information provided by the Control Room regarding these snatchings the different teams of Crime Branch were swung into action and started working on different leads. Today, Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested one Ajay Kumar @ Ajju s/o Sh. Om Parkash R/o # 272, Near Khira Mandir Vill. Maloya, Chandigarh, age 24 years from near bus stand Vill. Maloya, who is the person involved in all the 5 snatchings that were committed in the area of PS-39, Chandigarh yesterday. With his arrest all the snatched articles were recovered alongwith the 100% cash i.e. 29,000/-. The accused was identified by all the five victims and they have also identified their recovered articles. During the interrogation the accused Ajay Kumar disclosed that earlier he has committed 3 snatchings in different parts of Chandigarh and with that snatched money he went to Baba Balak Nath on 28.6.2017 and came back on 29.6.2017. Now again he was planning to go to collect ‘Kawad’ from Haridwar and for this he was in need of money, so to attain money he committed snatchings on 12.7.2017. The accused is a drug addict and is in habbit of taking ‘Charas’ and ‘Ganja’. With his arrest following 5 cases have been worked out

The cases solved with their arrest are as under: FIR No. 279 dated 12.7.2017 U/S 379,356,411 IPC PS- 39, Chd FIR No. 280 dated 12.7.2017 U/S 379,356,411 IPC PS- 39, Chd FIR No. 281 dated 12.7.2017 U/S 379,356,411 IPC PS- 39, Chd FIR No. 282 dated 12.7.2017 U/S 379,356,411 IPC PS- 39, Chd FIR No. 283 dated 12.7.2017 U/S 379,356,411 IPC PS- 39, Chd

More recovery likely to be effected from the accused during the police remand. 79. 15.07.2017 Two arrested under NDPS Act Chandigarh Police Crime Branch arrested Harpal Singh R/o# 2561, Sector-22, Chandigarh from near Mandir, Sector-22, Chandigarh and recovered 70 Injections of Bupernophine and Pheniramine from his possession. A case FIR No. 188, U/S 22 NDPS act has been registered in PS-17, Chandigarh. Investigation of the case is in progress. Chandigarh Police Crime Branch arrested Amarjit Singh R/o# 1867, Sector-22, Chandigarh from near Bal Bhawan, Sector-23, Chandigarh and recovered 32 Injections from his possession. A case FIR No. 188, U/S 22 NDPS act has been registered in PS-17, Chandigarh. Investigation of the case is in progress. 80. 16.07.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Baghiya Singh R/o Ward No. 7, Village Makkhu, Tehsil Jeera, Distt. Firozepur, (PB) from T-point near Punjab University, Sector-25, Chandigarh and recovered 30 injections of Bupernophine drug from his possession. A case FIR No. 175, U/S 22 NDPS act has been registered in PS-11, Chandigarh. 81. 19.07.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Sandeep R/o H.No-556, Village Burail, Chandigarh near Karan Taxi Stand, DMC, Chandigarh and recovered 50 injections of Bupernophine & Pheniramine drugs from his possession. A case FIR No. 134, U/S 22 NDPS act has been registered in PS-Maloya, Chandigarh. 82. 20.07.2017 Two arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Mohseen @ Sonu R/o H.No 1072, Village Burail, Chandigarh near Dev Samaj College, Sector-45, Chandigarh and Recovered 12 Gm Heroin from his possession. A case FIR No. 254, U/S 21 NDPS act has been registered in PS-34, Chandigarh.

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Ashok Kumar @ Shoki R/o # 588, Sector 38-A, Chandigarh near Dividing Road, Sector-38 A&B, Chandigarh and recovered 100 injections of Bupernophine & Pheniramine drugs from his possession. A case FIR No. 300, U/S 22 NDPS act has been registered in PS-39, Chandigarh. 83. 22.07.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Abhishek Kumar R/o # 1002, Sector- 18-C, Chandigarh from near Shiv Mandir, Railway Road, Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh and recovered 15 Injections Buprenorphine Omqesic Each 2ML & 15 Injections Pheniramine Maleate Each 10ML from his possession. A case FIR No. 134, U/S 22 NDPS act has been registered in PS-Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh. 84. 27.07.2017 Two arrested under NDPS Act

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested a girl resident of Sector 27, Chandigarh near Govt. High School, Sector 22, Chandigarh and Recovered 8.11 GM Heroin from his possession. A case FIR No. 213, U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-17, Chandigarh. Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Vishal Waliya R/o Village-Pitri, Distt-Panchkula (HR) near SCO No. 3027-3028, Sector-22, Chandigarh and recovered 20 injections of Bupernophine & Pheniramine drugs from his possession. A case FIR No. 214, U/S 22 NDPS act has been registered in PS- 17, Chandigarh 85. 27.07.2017 Two arrested under Arms Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Pardeep Singh @ Lucky R/o # 2878A, CRPF Colony, Dugri Urban State, PH-1, Ludhiana, (PB) age about 24 years and Mandeep Singh @ Manny R/o VPO Mullapur Dakha, Distt-Ludhina, (PB) age about 23 years both occupants of Etios car No. PB10-FP- 0205 near under bridge, dividing road, Sector 11/15, Chandigarh and recovered one Pistol and 2 live cartridges from their possession. A Case FIR No. 189, U/S 25-54-59 Arms Act has been registered in PS- 11, Chandigarh. 86. 28.07.2017 Two arrested under Arms Act Chandigarh Police arrested Inderpreet Singh @ Perry R/o # 1285, Sec-33, Chandigarh, age-27 years and Bharat Bhushan @ Bhola R/o Village-Guruteg Bahadur Nagar, District Kotkapura (PB), age 23 years both occupants of I-20 car No. PB13 AE 3606 near Gurudwara Sahib, Sector 63, Chandigarh and recovered two country made pistol and 2 live cartridges from their possession. A Case FIR No. 61, U/S 25-54-59 Arms Act has been registered in PS-49, Chandigarh. 87. 29.7.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Chandigarh Police wing Crime Branch arrested Ashok Kumar resident of Village Jujhar Nagar, Distt. Mohali, near turn Village Maloya, Chandigarh and recovered 26 injections (13 injection of Buperonophine 2 ML and 13 injections of Pheniramine Maleete 10 ML each) from his possession. A case FIR No. 147, U/S 22 NDPS act has been registered in PS-Maloya, Chandigarh. 88. 29.7.2017 One arrested under Arms Act Chandigarh Police wing Crime Branch arrested Amit Kumar@ Shibu resident of Sector 26, Panchkula near Govt. School, Kishangarh Chandigarh and recovered 1 pistol and 1 live cartridge from his possession. A Case FIR No. 116, U/S 25-54-59 Arms Act has been registered in PS-IT Park, Chandigarh. 89. 02.08.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Rajinder Kumar R/o Village-Naraharpur, Tehsil- Patti, Distt. Partapgarh (UP) near Electricity Pole No. 46, near 11 KV Sub Station, Sector 52B, Chandigarh and recovered 30 injections of Buprenorphine & Pheniramine drugs from his possession. 90. 07.08.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested a lady resident of Chandigarh near Gurudwara Sahib Sector-38/West towards Sector-38, Chandigarh and recovered 40 Injections of Buprenorphine and Pheniramine maleate drugs from her possession. A case FIR No. 323, U/S 22 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-39, Chandigarh. 91. 10.08.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Vikram Singh R/o H.No-1437/15, Sector-29/B, Chandigarh from near Airport Light Point and recovered 5 Gm. Heroin from his possession. A case FIR No. 247, U/S 21 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-31, Chandigarh. Accused arrested in this case. 92. 11.08.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Vikas Sharma R/o 1244 Sector-41B, Chandigarh from near Shivalik School Gate No. 1 Sector-41, Chandigarh and recovered 405 Gram Charas from his possession. A case FIR No. 327, U/S 20 NDPS ACT has been registered in PS- 39, Chandigarh. 93. 21.08.2017 In the ongoing scenario of gang war in Punjab the Crime Branch of Chandigarh police got a major breakthrough by arresting two gangsters of Jaipal Gang, who were planning to kill a person due to their old rivalry. These two were arrested on the basis of a secret information that “two persons namely Saraj and Arjun who are relatives and are roaming in the area of Chandigarh and they have procured one country made pistol to assassinate a person. On the basis of secret information naka was laid near school, Sec.45, Chandigarh and from where both accused :- 1. Saraj @ Bau S/o Buta Singh Vill. Khalchiyan Distt. Ferozepur, Punjab. Age 30 years. 2. Arjun @ Ajju S/o Des Raj R/o Vill. Khalchiyan Distt. Ferozepur, Punjab Age 22 years. Were apprehended while they were riding in a Swift car No. PB05AE-9641 they were stopped at naka and Arjun tried to run away from the spot, but was apprehended, on the basis of suspicion he was checked and 304 grams heroin was recovered from him and from the possession of Saraj one country made pistol of 315 bore was recovered alongwith one live cartridge, both were arrested in case FIR No. 308 dated 20.8.2017 u/s 21 NDPS Act and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-34, Chandigarh. The detail of recovery is as under:- Sr. Recovery Approximate value No. 1. 304 Gram Heroin Rs. 8,00,000/- 2. 01 country made pistol of 315 bore - alongwith 01 live cartridge 3. Swift Car bearing No. PB05-AE-9641 -

Both the accused have tented past, accused Saraj involved in 8 Criminal cases i.e Murder, Attempt to murder, hurt, Arms Act and NDPS Act. He has been convicted in a murder case and is presently on bail from court and also facing trail in these criminal cases. Whereas five criminal cases of Murder, Attempt to murder, Arms Act and NDPS Act were pending against accused Arjun and he is absent in all these five cases. With their arrest Chandigarh police not only recovered illegal contraband and weapon but also saved one life. 94. 02.09.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Arun Kumar resident of Sector -37-D, Chandigarh, near Sector 37/38 small chowk and recovered 170 gram charas from his possession. A case FIR No. 359, U/S 20 NDPS has been registered in PS-39, Chandigarh. 95. 05.09.2017 Two arrested for applying Fake Number Plate Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Satish Kumar R/o # 33 near Post Office, Ward No. 1, Leharagagga, Distt. Sangrur, (PB) near Gate No. 1, PU, Sector-14, Chandigarh, while using fake registration number PB13AQ-6001 on Alto car. A Case FIR No. 245 U/S 473 IPC has been registered in PS-11, Chandigarh.

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Varinder Singh R/o Village Manak Majra, Distt. Mohali (PB) near PGI Chowk, Chandigarh, while using fake registration number PIX-71 on his Skoda Car. A Case FIR No. 246 U/S 473 IPC has been registered in PS-11, Chandigarh. 96. 05.09.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Gurjinder Singh R/o # 245, Balmiki Mohalla, Village- Burail, Chandigarh near B.ed College, Sector-20, Chandigarh and recovered 30 injections of Buprenorphine and Theniramine Maleate each from his possession. A case FIR No. 140, U/S 22 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-19, Chandigarh. 97. 06.09.2017 In last two days Crime Branch of Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh apprehended two accused Mithun S/o Sh. Guddu Mishara R/o H.No. 702, Jagatpur, Distt. Mohali and Varandeep Singh @ Monu S/o Sh. Surinder Singh R/o # 648, Dera Sahib Manimajra, Chandigarh separately and from them total 9 cases were solved out of these 9 cases, 1 is of snatching, 4 of auto theft, 3 of house theft and 1 of burglary. The cases solved with their arrest are as under: 8. FIR No. 72 dated 8.5.2017 U/S 379,411 IPC PS-3, Chandigarh 9. FIR No. 15 dated 28.1.2017 U/S 379,411 IPC PS-11, Chandigarh 10. FIR No. 503 dated 17.9.2017 U/S 379,411 IPC PS-MM, Chandigarh 11. FIR No. 104 dated 9.7.2017 U/S 379,411 IPC PS-19, Chandigarh 12. FIR No. 302 dated 19.8.2017 U/S 380,411 IPC PS-34, Chandigarh 13. FIR No. 257 dated 5.1.2017 U/S 380,411 IPC PS-39, Chandigarh 14. FIR No. 215 dated 3.9.2017 U/S 379,411 IPC PS-MM, Chandigarh 15. FIR No. 137 dated 27.7.2017 U/S 380,457,411 IPC PS-MJ, Chandigarh 16. FIR No. 143 dated 30.5.2017 U/S 356,379,411 IPC PS-36, Chandigarh 98. 08.09.2017 One arrested under NDPS Act Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested Rajinder Kumar @ Gandhi R/o Gali no. 3 Jujhar Nagar, Mohali from near snehalya maloya, Chandigarh and recovered 450 Grams Opium from his possession. A case FIR No. 174, U/S 18 NDPS act has been registered in PS-Maloya, Chandigarh. 99. 11.09.2017 In last three days Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh apprehended four persons separately in different cases 1) Sahil s/o Natar Pal resident of Sector-25, Chandigarh 2) Vijay Kumar @ Mota s/o Ram Avtar resident of Ram Darbar, Ph. 2, Chandigarh. 3) Gurwinder @ Gaggi s/o Sohan Lal resident of Village Jagatpura, Mohali, Punjab 4)Heera Singh s/o Sh. Amar Singh r/o Village Varnala, PS Baltoha, Teh. Patti, Distt. Tarntaran, Punjab and from them total 4 cases of snatching were solved. The cases solved with their arrest are as under:

1. Case FIR No. 158 dated 27.05.2017 u/s 356,379,411 IPC, PS-39, Chd. 2. Case FIR No. 274 dated 09.09.2017 u/s 356,379,411 IPC, PS-31, Chd. 3. Case FIR No. 251 dated 18.07.2017 u/s 356,379,411 IPC, PS-34, Chd. 4. Case FIR No. 17 dated 18.01.2017 u/s 356,379,34,411 IPC, PS-Manimarja, Chandigarh.

With their arrest 05 mobile phones and a motor cycle used in crime have been recovered. In another break through today the following two persons were arrested in NDPS Cases:- 1. Chuni Lal S/o Sh. Puran Chand R/o Vill. Chhalal PO. Kasol, PS Manikaran, Kullu, Himachal Pradesh

In case FIR No. 348 dated 11.09.2017 u/s 20 NDPS Act, Police Station Sector-34, Chandigarh and recovered 500 gram Charas with his possession.

2. Pawan Kumar S/o Baldev Raj R/o # 465, DMC, Chandigarh In case FIR No. 181 dated 11.09.2017 u/s 22 NDPS Act, Police Station- Maloya, Chandigarh and recovered 100 injections (50 Buprenorphine & 50 Pheniramine) with his possession. 100. 18.09.2017 In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested the most notorious and habitual snatcher and vehicle thief. On 14.09.2017 a secret information was received that a boy who was involved in several cases of snatching and vehicle theft in Chandigarh are presently roaming in the area of Chandigarh. On this information the team was constituted and the accused namely Nizamudeen @ Sonu s/o Gulzar Sabri r/o House No. 658, Milk Colony, Dhanas, Chandigarh was apprehended from near Batra Cinema, Sector-37, Chandigarh. During the interrogation of the accused it has been revealed that he is involved in several cases of snatching and vehicle theft in the area of Chandigarh and from him Crime Branch is able to solve 12 cases. Out of these 12 cases, 09 are of snatching and 3 are of vehicle theft were solved. Recovery:- Four snatched mobile phones. 1. One Gold Chain. 2. One pair of Gold ear rings. 3. Three bags alongwith documents. 4. One Honda City Car.

Three Motor cycles. The accused had tainted past as he was involved in a murder case, which he committed in the year 2008 and in the same case he got convicted for seven year and was presently on bail in this case, previously total 12 cases were registered against him which includes snatching, Motor Vehicle theft, House theft, NDPS Act, Excise Act and murder.

The detail of the present cases solved with his arrest is as under:- Case FIR No. 316 dated 07.09.2017 u/s 356,379,411 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh. 1. Case FIR No. 22 dated 24.01.2017 u/s 356,379,411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh. 2. Case FIR No. 114 dated 01.06.2017 u/s 356,379,411 IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh. 3. Case FIR No. 338 dated 16.08.2017 u/s 356,379,411 IPC, PS-39, Chd.. 4. Case FIR No. 248 dated 04.09.2017 u/s 356,379,411 IPC, PS-11, Chandigarh. 5. Case FIR No. 247 dated 04.09.2017 u/s 356,379,411 IPC, PS-11, Chandigarh. 6. Case FIR No. 156 dated 15.05.2017 u/s 356,379,411 IPC, PS-31, Chandigarh. 7. Case FIR No. 90 dated 26.06.2017 u/s 379,356,411 IPC, PS-19, Chandigarh. 8. Case FIR No. 287 dated 07.09.2017 u/s 379,356,411 IPC, PS-17, Chd. 9. Case FIR No. 181 dated 07.09.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-03, Chandigarh. 10. Case FIR No. 375 dated 08.09.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh. 11. Case FIR No. 269 dated 12.08.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh.

The accused was produced in the court and further remanded to judicial custody.

101. 22.09.2017 to Vehcile Theft Gang arrested by Crime Branch & 36 two wheelers recovered from them 03.10.2017 In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch Chandigarh Police succeeded in nabbing a notorious gang of Auto Lifters who are active in the area of Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula, Rajpura, Patiala, Yamuna Nagar and New Delhi and from them 36 stolen vehicles were recovered. Apart from this 15 such vehicles have been identified which were stolen from Delhi and were sold to a scrap dealer in Malout and this scrap dealer further dismantled these vehicles and sold it in parts.

On 22.9.2017, on the basis of a secret information accused Chanpreet Singh @ Channi S/o Harvinder Pal Singh R/o House No. A1-EB Chander Vihar, Extension Nilothi Nangloi, Delhi was arrested in Case FIR No. 160 dated 22.9.2017 u/s 473, 411 IPC PS-Sarangpur, Chandigarh and from his possession one Lancer Car CH03A-3490 was recovered and at the time of his arrest he was driving this case with fake Number i.e. PB25C-3808, later during the investigation this car was found to be stolen from Rajpura, Distt. Patiala. On further interrogation accused Chanpreet Singh @ Channi suffered different disclosure statements that he has stolen few vehicles from Chandigarh and Yamuna Nagar and on the basis of his disclosure statement total 5 vehicles were got recovered from him. Out of these 5 vehicles one is Lancer car, one is Innova, one is Maruti, one is Hero Honda Splendor and one is activa.

The other associates of Chanpreet Singh @ Channi namely 1) Dhanwinder Sharma S/o Kuldeep Sharma R/o New Vivek Vihar Ambala city 2) Harpreet Singh s/o Gurwinder Singh r/o Gobind Vihar Ambala City 3) Sher Singh s/o Late Sh. Lakhi Ram r/o VPO Rattangarh Kakroli, P.S Pehwa, Distt. Kurukeshtra, Haryana 4) Raj Kumar @ Krishan Kumar r/o Village Sandhala, PS Jathalna, Distt. Yamunanagar, Haryana and one Scrap Dealer Sanjeev Kumar @ Kali s/o Des Raj R/o Vill. Bloch Khera PS-Lambi Teh. Malout Distt. Mukatsar were also arrested and from them the following cases were solved.

1. FIR No. 160 dated 22.09.17 u/s 473,411 IPC, PS-Sarangpur, Chd. 2. FIR No. 169 dated 24.06.17 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-17, Chandigarh. 3. FIR No. 152 dated 25.9.2017 u/s 473,411 IPC PS-IT Park, Chd. 4. FIR No. 405 dated 23.9.2017 u/s 473,411 IPC PS-39, Chd 5. FIR No. 404 dated 20.9.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-39, Chandigarh. 6. FIR No. 126 dated 6.5.2014 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-36, Chandigarh. 7. FIR No. 289 dated 29.9.2017 u/s 473,411 IPC PS-IA, Chandigarh. 8. FIR No. 245 dated 30.9.2017 u/s 473,411 IPC PS-MM, Chandigarh 9. FIR No. 340 dated 18.10.2011 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-31,Chandigarh. 10. FIR No. 370 dated 05.09.2017 u/s 379 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh. 11. FIR No. 193 dated 2.10.2017 u/s 473,411 IPC PS-Maloya, Chd.

On the basis of disclosure statement suffered by Sanjeev 4 Four Wheelers and 21 Two Wheelers were recovered which were taken in police possession u/s 102 Cr.P.C which according to Sanjeev was sold to him by Chanpreet Singh @ Channi.

Sanjeev is scrap dealer in Malout and Chanpreet @ Channi and Raj Kumar has given him 15 cars out of which 12 are Alto, 2 Verna and 1 Honda City which he dismantled and sold it as a scrap. It has been found that all these cars were stolen from Delhi by Chanpreet and Raj Kumar and further sold it to Sanjeev.

The accused Chanpreet Singh @ Channi, Raj Kumar and Sher Singh have tainted past and they have been arrested several times by Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi Police.

Total Recovered Vehicles in cases Sr. No. Make Quantity 1. Lancer Car 1 2. Innova Car 2 3. Maruti 3 4. M/C 2 5. Breza 1 6. Indica Car 1 7. Activa 1 Total 11

Four Wheeler taken u/s 102 Cr.P.C Sr. No. Make Registration No. 1. Truck Without number 2. Tempo Traveler Without number 3. Innova Car Without number 4. Swift Car Without number

Two Wheelers taken u/s 102 Cr.P.C Sr. No. Make Registration No. 1. Splendor M/C Without number 2. Platina M/C Without number 3. Platina M/C Without number 4. Passion M/C Without number 5. Pulsar M/C Without number 6. Scooter Without number 7. Discover M/C Without number 8. Pulsar M/C Without number 9. RX-100 M/C Without number 10. Discover M/C Without number 11. Kinetic Without number 12. Scooter Without number 13. Twister Motor cycle Without number 14. Discover M/C Without number 15. FZ M/C Without number 16. Activa scooter Without number 17. TVS Star City Without number 18. TVS Star City M/C Without number 19. Activa Scooter Without number 20. Bullet M/C Without number 21. Bullet M/C Without number

102. 14.10.2017 Most notorious gang of snatchers and vehicle thieves arrested In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested the most notorious gang of snatchers and vehicle thieves.

1. Vicky s/o Late Sh. Joginder Singh r/o House No. 1200, Sector-46/B, Chandigarh. Age 31 years. (Date of arrest 7.10.2017)

2. Usman Ali s/o Meharban Ali r/o V-92, Welcome Silampur- III, near Photo Chowk, Distt. Shahdara, Old Delhi-53, Age 32 years. (Date of arrest 10.10.2017)

3. Shakil Ahmad S/o Mohamad Gaphar R/O V-86 Welcome Silampur, Photo Chowk, Distt. Shahdara New Delhi, Age 40 years. (Date of arrest 10.10.2017)

During the interrogation of these accused it has been revealed that they are involved in several cases of gold chain snatchings and vehicles lifting in Chandigarh and from them Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch is able to solve total 17 cases out of which 13 are of gold chain snatchings and 4 cases of vehicle theft.

The modus operandi of these criminal is that they used to target ladies wearing gold chains preferably older in age, who are pedestrian and by making excuse of asking the location of particular place, they used to divert once mind and then suddenly get close to the target to snatch their gold chains and after committing the crime they used to flee on the motorcycle from the spot.

The cases solved with their arrest are as under:

Sr. FIR Date U/S PS State Item snatched/ No. No. stolen 1. 393 14.09.17 379,356,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 2. 190 16.06.17 379,356,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 3. 321 04.08.17 379,356,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 4. 200 16.06.17 379,356,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 5. 326 01.09.17 379,356,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 6. 270 09.07.17 379,356,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 7. 217 23.06.17 379,356,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 8. 272 02.09.17 379,356,411 IPC 17 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 9. 420 03.10.17 356,379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 10. 197 27.06.17 356,379,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 11. 334 24.09.17 379,356,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 12. 181 09.07.17 356,379,411 IPC 17 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 13. 76 03.02.16 356,379,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh. Gold Chain 14. 138 19.05.17 379,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh. Activa 15. 247 18.08.17 379,411 IPC 17 Chandigarh. Activa 16. 221 24.06.17 379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh. Motor Cycle 17. 417 29.09.17 379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh. Motor cycle

These accused tried hard to sell these gold chains in Chandigarh and around, but failed to do so, as no jeweler accepted to this illegal sale and most of them demanded bills for these gold chains.

All the accused persons were snatching gold chains and keeping these chains with them with the intention that they will soon get a disposing point where they can sell these snatched chains.

Accused Vicky had tented past and last year in the month of October 2016 he was arrested and at that time he was proclaim offender in 45 cases and total more than 100 case of snatching, robbery, motor vehicle theft were registered against him. Some of cases are under trial and in some cases he got convicted.

103. 17.11.2017 Arrest of Snatchers and Vehicle lifter gang

In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested the most notorious gang of snatchers and vehicle lifters who were involved in recent chain snatchings and auto lifting from Chandigarh.

1. Naman Sehgal s/o Sh. Rajesh Kumar r/o House No. NC-102, Kot Kishan Chand Jalandhar, Punjab.

2. Shubham Sehgal s/o Sh. Rajesh Kumar r/o House No. NC-102, Kot Kishan Chand Jalandhar, Punjab.

3. Gurdeep Singh @ Kala s/o Kashmira Singh r/o House No. 145, Sector-24, Mandi Gobindgarh, Distt. Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab.

During the interrogation of these accused it has been revealed that they are involved in several cases of gold chain snatchings and vehicles lifting from Chandigarh and from them Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity detection cell of Crime Branch is able to solve total 12 cases out of which 7 are of gold chain snatchings and 1 case of gold ear Tops snatching and 4 cases of vehicle theft. Both the arrested Naman and Subham are real brothers and are permanent resident of Jalandhar. The modus operandi of these brothers is that they used to target ladies wearing gold chains or ear rings who are pedestrian. They usually snatch chains during the day time and immediately after the snatching they used to go to Mandi Gobindgarh (Khanna) and from where they buy narcotics from one of the paddler. They used to hand over the snatched chains to the paddler, one such chain and stolen motor cycles has also been recovered from this paddler namely Gurdeep Singh.

All the accused persons have a tainted past as all of them have been arrested in different cases of narcotics, motor vehicles theft and snatching earlier by Punjab Police. Both these brothers committing crime of snatching recently in Jalandhar and when they have been identified by the Jalandhar Police they left the Jalandhar city and started living in Chandigarh as paying guest in H.No. 99, Sec.20, Chandigarh. While living Jalandhar they had stolen one splendor bike from Jalandhar Railway Station bearing registration No. PB08BL-2994 and this bike they further used in snatchings. This bike has also been recovered.

The cases solved with their arrest are as under:

Sr. FIR Date U/S PS Item No. No. snatched/ stolen

18. 207 9.11.17 356,379,411 19 Gold Chain IPC

19. 193 24.10.17 356,379,411 19 Gold chain IPC and splendor motor cycle

20. 426 4.11.17 356,379,411 34 Gold Chain IPC

21. 190 20.10.17 356,379,411 19 Gold chain IPC

22. 169 10.10.17 356,379,411 Sarangpur Ear tops IPC

23. 201 28.10.17 356,379,411,34 19 Half Gold IPC Chain

24. 248 24.8.17 379,411 IPC IA Deluxe Hero Honda CB Motor cycle

25. 203 2.11.17 379,411 IPC 19 Bajaj Platina Motor cycle

26. 320 4.8.17 379,411 IPC 39 Splendor Pro Motor cycle

27. 255 8.9.17 379,411 IPC 11 Activa Scooter

28. 320 8.10.17 379,356,411 31 Gold Chain IPC

29. 417 31.10.17 379,356,411 34 Gold Chain IPC

104. 29.11.2017 Auto Lifter gang arrested

In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch Chandigarh Police succeeded in nabbing a notorious criminal involved in several cases of Auto Lifters and from him Chandigarh Police is able to recover six vehicles (two wheelers of different areas of Chandigarh).

On 29.11.2017, on the basis of a secret information accused Rakesh @ Billa s/o Karan Singh r/o near Service Station, Village Saketri, District Panckula, Haryana was arrested from near Panjab University Turn. Rakesh @ Billa is a hard core criminal and also a jail escapee. In 2013, a case of murder (case FIR No. 50 dated 11.05.2013, Police Station- Naya Gaon, Distt. Mohali, Punjab) was registered against Rakesh @ Billa and others. After the trial he was convicted with life imprisonment, but on 24.12.2015 while he was being brought from Nabha Jail to District Court Mohali, Punjab in another case of robbery he made a excuse to the accompanying police officers that he want to pass urine and while doing so he ran away from the custody, regarding his escape from custody case FIR No. 109 dated 24.12.2015 u/s 224 IPC, Police Station-Bakshiwala, Patiala, Punjab was registered against him, since then he is residing in tri city and steeling these two wheelers.

From him the vehicles of following cases were recovered-

1. FIR No. 149 dated 04.06.17 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-36, Chd.

2. FIR No. 316 dated 22.08.17 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-34, Chandigarh.

3. FIR No. 82 dated 19.06.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-Sarangpur, Chd.

4. FIR No. 220 dated 24.06.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-39, Chd

5. FIR No. 148 dated 14.05.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-39, Chd. 6. FIR No. 315 dated 31.05.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-39, Chd.

105. 12.12.2017 Auto lifter gang arrested by Crime Branch

In a two separate incidents the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police succeeded in nabbing a two notorious criminals involved in several cases of Auto lifting and house thefts, with their arrest Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police is able to recover eleven cases out of which eight are of vehicles theft and three are of house theft.

On 6.12.2017, on the basis of a secret information accused Sanjeev @ Sanju S/o Sh. Santarpal R/o 1361, Indra Colony, Manimajra, Chandigarh was arrested from near Powerhouse building Kishangarh, Chandigarh and from him Five stolen two wheelers were recovered. The detail of cases is as under:

1. FIR No. 12 dated 14.1.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-I.T Park, Chd.

2. FIR No. 85 dated 7.4.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-17, Chandigarh.

3. FIR No. 253 dated 6.9.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-11, Chandigarh

4. FIR No. 148 dated 7.7.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-MM, Chandigarh

5. FIR No. 241 dated 13.8.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-17, Chandigarh

On 9.12.2017 another accused Ranjit Kumar S/o Banarsi Ram R/o # near Peer Baba Susma Society, near Dhakoli, Zirakpur was arrested from near Motor Market, DMC, Chandigarh and from him three stolen vehicles (Two wheelers) and three cases of house theft were solved. The detail of cases is as under:

1. FIR No. 481 dated 15.11.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-39, Chandigarh

2. FIR No. 468 dated 3.11.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-39, Chandigarh

3. FIR No. 309 dated 27.7.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-39, Chandigarh

4. FIR No. 450 dated 18.10.2017 u/s 380,411 IPC PS-39, Chandigarh

5. FIR No. 79 dated 1.4.2016 u/s 380,457,411 IPC PS-26, Chandigarh

6. FIR No. 114 dated 31.5.2016 u/s 380,411 IPC PS-26, Chandigarh

Both the accused are drug addict and have tented past have been arrested earlier in case of burglaries and house thefts. Both the accused were sent to judicial custody after getting their police remand. 106. 06.01.2018 Robbers gang arrested

In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to solve the spurt of robberies, carjacking and kidnapping in which Ritz car was involved and arrested two accused:-

1. Yodha Singh @ Jodha S/o Puran Singh Vill. Bhoepur Teh. Shahkot, Distt. Jalandhar. Age 24 years.

2. Lovepreet Singh @ Happy s/o Channa Singh R/o VPO. Thambuwal PS. Shahkot Distt. Jalandhar. Age 20 years.

On 6.1.2018 a secret information was received that the persons who were involved in several cases of robberies, carjacking and kidnapping were roaming in the area of Kaimbwala, Chandigarh. On the basis of secret information the naka was laid and both Jodha and Lovepreet were apprehended while they were making preparation to rob another person. From their possession the Both of them were arrested and on further interrogation and investigation they have confessed their involvement in total 6 cases in which Ritz car was involved, one of the accused Jodha was also involved in Innova Crysta carjacking from 33/45 light point. They have done crimes in Punjab as well and recently they have looted Rs. 60,000/- from Sadak, Faridkot on 16.12.2017 at 12.00 pm from one scooterist.

The detail of cases:

1. FIR No. 229 dated 11.12.2017 u/s 392,34 IPC and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-3, Chandigarh. A Ritz car was robbed from one Puran Singh on the gun point by the two persons who booked Ola cab by using the mobile phone of one pedestrian from Bus Stand Sec.43 to Kaimbwala at about 10.00 pm on 11.12.17. 2. FIR No. 474 dated 17.12.2017 u/s 392 IPC and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-34, Chandigarh.In this case Innova Crysta was robbed on the gun point near dividing road Sec.33/45 at about 1.45 pm from one Jagdeep Singh who is working at Azad Taxi Stand Sec.46, Chandigarh. 3. FIR No. 531 dated 24.12.2017 u/s 365,397,34,506 IPC and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-39, Chandigarh. This case was registered on the complaint of Sh. Jai Ram who was kidnapped on the gun point from the dividing road Sec.40/55 at about 12.30 am, while he was coming from Zirakpur to his house Sec.56. Jai Ram was taken to Khanna (Pb) where they have withdrawn Rs.25,000/- by using his ATM and later on Jai Ram escaped from their clutches. 4. FIR No. 398 dated 24.12.2017 u/s 392 IPC and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-17, Chandigarh. In this case Sh. Sanjeev Kumar was forced to stop by the occupant of Ritz car near dividing road Sec.22/23 at about 2.00 am and they robbed Rs. 10000/- and Gold Chain from him on the gunpoint. 5. FIR No. 2 dated 5.1.2018 u/s 341,392,34 IPC and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-11, Chandigarh. In this case Sh. Raghwander Kumar was stopped and was forcibly dragged into the car by the occupant of car on the dividing road of Sec.14/15 at about 12.30 am. They robbed Rs. 10000/- from him on the gun point and later on left him on the road. 6. FIR No. 6 dated 5.1.2018 u/s 379,356,392 IPC PS-39, Chandigarh. On 5.1.18 at about 11.40 pm while Rakam Singh was going to his house and reached near dividing road 39/40 the occupant of the Ritz car approached him and asked way to Nayagaon. The moment he stopped the occupant of the car looted Rs. 1500/- and fled away.

Many persons are involved in this gang. Who are yet to be arrested, we have identified 5 other accused who were involved in these cases. Efforts are on and raids are being conducted to arrest these accused. Ritz car with the fake number place i.e. PB02AA-5293 and „Dantar‟ was recovered. Both the arrested accused have a tainted past and both of them have arrested earlier in NDPS Act and are cousin brothers.

107. 20.01.2018 Gang of Cheaters Busted

The Crime Branch of Chandigarh headed by Insp. Amanjot Singh under the supervision of DSP Pawan Kumar busted the gang of cheaters who were active in Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana ,Uttrakhand and in other adjoining states. These gang members have duped financing companies and banks i.e. Bajaj Finance, HDFC and Capital Finance in crores.

Case FIR No. 21 dated 19.1.2018 u/s 467,468,471,419,420,120B IPC PS-17, Chandigarh was registered and in this case initially following four accused were arrested:-

1. Ashish Kumar s/o Sh. Rajdeep Mehta r/o House No. 533/6 Village Kajheri, Sector-52, Chandigarh. 2. Vishal Sahgal s/o Gulshan Sahgal r/o House No. 807/2, Gali No. 3 Ward No. 2, Siwan Gate Mahadev Colony, Kaithal, Haryana. 3. Shakti Singh s/o Late Sh. Chander Pal r/o House No. 932, Sector-25, Panchkula, Haryana. 4. Sanjeev Kumar s/o Amrit Lal r/o House No. 247, Ph. 6, Mohali (Pb).

From them four mobile phones which they have got financed on fake I.Ds i.e. Aadhar Card and PAN Card were recovered while they were going to sell these phones in Mobile Market Sec.22, Chandigarh alongwith few fake I.Ds. All these four accused were produced before the court and their four days police remand was obtained.

During the course of investigation another three accused involved in this gang members were also arrested on 20.1.2018 i.e.

1. Amit Katyal s/o Monohar Singh Vill. Badhera, Teh. Haroli, Distt. Una. 2. Kapil Dhingra S/o Tilak Raj R/o # 2569, VPO Lalru, Ward No.7, Distt. Mohali 3. Baldev Singh S/o Late Sh. Bhajan Singh R/o # 99, Guru Nanak Colony, Badmajra, PS. Balongi, Mohali.

From them fake I.Ds used by them for procuring loan were also recovered.

Modus Operandi:

That Amit Katyal and Kapil Dhingra used to work in HDFC Bank and Bajaj Finance Ltd. respectively, both of them used to steal the data of the prevailing loan customers and further provide this data to one Baldev Kumar who used to prepare their fake I.Ds i.e. Aadhar Cards and PAN Cards and on the basis of these fake I.Ds Sanjeev Gupta, Aashish and Shakti Singh got huge amount of mobile phones financed from Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank and Capital Finance and further they used to sell these finance phones in the local market on a cheaper price, the money obtained after the sale of such mobiles was distributed among all of them.

From the investigation so far it has come to notice that these cheaters were not only doing such cheating for their own benefits but also causing huge loss to the customers of such financing companies whose data has been provided to them by Amit Katyal and Kapil Dhingra, as the installments of these cheated phones is being deducted from the account of such people who even don‟t have the knowledge of any such loan and the installments if not paid their account is going to fall in the category of bad loan.

By unearthing such scam the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police not only nabbed the real culprits but also saved the innocent people from being the victim of financial embezzlements.

Sanjeev Gupta, Baldev and Sakti Singh have tainted past, Sanjeev Gupta was arrested earlier by PS-Ind. Area, Chandigarh in Cheating case, Sakti Singh was arrested by Cyber Cell, Chandigarh in cheating case and Baldev Singh was arrested by Mohali Police in snatching case.

108. 14.02.2018 Anti Homicide, Burglary and other Heinous Crimes Cell of Crime Branch, UT/Chandigarh has succeeded in arresting three accused persons namely Sukhwinder Singh @ Sukha s/o Som Dutta r/o H.No.1798, Adarsh Nagar, Naya Gaon, Mohali, Raj Kumar s/o Babu Ram r/o H.No. 1835, Adarsh Nagar, Naya Gaon, Mohali, Punjab and Sagar Masih s/o Sh. Munna Dass r/o H.No. 159, Shivalik Vihar, Zirakpur, Mohali, Punjab and with their arrest eight (08) cases of vehicle theft have been worked out.

On 14.02.2018, on a tip of, a team consisting Inspector Dalbir Singh, SI Shiv Charan and other officials of Anti Homicide, Burglary and other Heinous Crimes Cell of Crime Branch, Sector-11, Chandigarh under the close supervision of DSP/Crime laid a naka near Small Chowk, Sector-11, Chandigarh. During checking, the team apprehended above said accused persons alongwith a Motor Cycle (triple riding) bearing registration No.PB65-M-1981, make-Royal Enfield while they were coming from Sector-11, Market side. On further checking, the registration number of the said vehicle found fake and the original number found HR22-K-9888. The said Motor Cycle found to be stolen vide FIR No. 334 dated 14.11.2017 u/s 379,411, 473 IPC, PS-11, Chandigarh. All the three accused were arrested in the said case.

During interrogation, they disclosed that they have stolen number of vehicles from the different part of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali. On 15.02.2018, upon their disclosure statement, all accused were produced before the Hon‟ble District Court, Sector-43, Chandigarh and obtained 02 days police custody remand for further investigation.

During the course of further investigation, 08 stolen vehicles (01 four wheeler and 07 two wheelers) have been recovered at their instance which led to solving of 08 cases of vehicle theft registered with different police stations of the tri-city. The details of these cases are as under:-

SN Case FIR No. Date, u/s & PS Recovered Vehicle 1. FIR No. 334 dated 14.11.2017 u/s 379,411, 473 IPC, PS-11, Royal Enfield motor cycle Chandigarh.

2. FIR No. 322 dated 01.11.2017 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-11, Royal Enfield motor cycle Chandigarh.

3. FIR No. 262 dated 20.12.2017 u/s 379,411, IPC, PS-Maloya, Splender motor cycle Chandigarh. 4. FIR No. 120 dated 24.04. 2017 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-34, Pulsar motor cycle Chandigarh.

On the basis of disclosure statement suffered by accused persons 01 Four Wheeler Vehicle i.e. Willy Jeep and 03 Two Wheelers i.e. 02 Duke KTM Motor Cycles and 01 Splender Motor Cycle were recovered which were taken in police possession u/s 102 Cr.P.C. During the course of investigation, these vehicles found stolen in the cases registered at Mohali & Panchkula. The detail of same is as under:-

Four Wheeler taken u/s 102 Cr.P.C

SN Case FIR No. Make 5. FIR No. 07 dated 16.02.2018 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-Naya Gaon, Willy Jeep Mohali, Punjab.

Two Wheelers taken u/s 102 Cr.P.C SN Case FIR No. Make 22. FIR No. 08 dated 16.02.2018 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-Naya Motor Cycle make Duke Gaon, Punjab. 200 KTM 23. FIR No. 294 dated 30.11.2017 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-Sector-14 Motor Cycle make Duke Panchkula, Haryana. 200 KTM 24. FIR No. 258 dated 18.09.2017 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-Sector- Motor Cycle make Chandi Mandir, Panchkula, Haryana. Splender

Modus Operandi

Accused Sukhwinder Singh @ Sukha use to steal Royal Enfield Vehicles for joy rides and to impress his friends. In order to fulfil his desires, he took the help of his associates for stealing the two wheeler vehicles.

During the course of investigation, they confessed that they had also stolen two motor cycles make Royal Enfield and Splender in the area of PS-39 and PS-IA, UT/Chandigarh. After record verification, it came to light that the same were stolen in FIR No. 316 dated 31.07.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh and FIR No. 209 dated 26.07.2017 dated 14.01.2017 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh. Today i.e. 17.02.2018, accused produced before the court and obtained 02 days police remand to recover the stolen vehicles. The investigation is being conducted to recover the remaining stolen vehicles and more stolen vehicles recovery likely to be effected from the accused during the police remand.

109. 30.01.2018 Award function to recognize good work done by civilians, police officials and Home Guards.

An award function was held at GO‟s Mess, Police Lines, Sector 26, Chandigarh to recognize the good work done by Civilians, police officials and Home Guards on the basis of monthly and six monthly performances. Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, Advisor to the Administrator, UT, Chandigarh was the Chief Guest at the function. Sh. Tajender Singh Luthra, IPS, Director General of Police along with other senior Police Officers were present during the function.

On this occasion, police personnel who retired from police services after attaining the age of superannuation were also honored by the Chief Guest Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, Advisor to the Administrator accompanied by Sh. Tajender Singh Luthra, IPS, DGP/UT, Chd, Dr. O.P. Mishra, IPS, DIG/UT, Sh. Shashank Anand, IPS, SSP/Traffic & Security, Ms. Nilambari Jagdale, IPS, SSP/UT, Sh. Eish Singhal, IPS, SP/Head Quarters and Sh. Ravi Kumar, IPS, SP/Operations & Crime, other Police Officers including DSPs and Inspectors were also present at the Function. The police officers and other officials who retired after attaining the age of superannuation are Insp. (ORP) Ravi Kishor, Insp. (ORP) Jasmit Singh, Insp. (ORP) Satnam Singh, Insp. (ORP) Avjinder Singh, SI Ramesh Kumar, SI (ORP) Inderjit Singh, ASI (ORP) Lajwanti, ASI (ORP) Bikram Singh, HC Jagdish Singh, HC (ORP) Laxman Singh, Constable Amarjit Singh. The families of retired police officers were also invited on this occasion as a Guest of Honor.

The following 08 police personnel have been rewarded with suitable cash rewards and Commendation Certificate for their good work and best performances in their assigned duties during last six (06) months.

Sr. No. Rank Name & Number Unit 1. Insp. Amanjot Singh, 474/CHG I/C Anti Snatching, Robbery & Dacoity Cell 2. SI Naveen Kumar, 1070/CHG Anti Snatching, Robbery & Dacoity Cell 3. SI Satinder Kumar, 803 CHG CCIC

4. HC Balwinder Singh, 2532/CP Reader, DSP W&CSU

5. HC Rakesh Singh, 2525/CP PS-36

6. HC Pardeep Kumar, 3318/CP Police Lines

7. Sr. C. Rajinder Singh, 1353/CP Reader, CLI, RTC

8. C. Vijay Kumar, 1590/CP CID

The following police personnel / Home Guard Volunteers have also been rewarded with suitable cash rewards and Commendation Certificate for their good work and best performances in their assigned duties during the month of December - 2017.

SI Sharanjit Singh (Line Officer, Traffic Staff), SI Kulwant Singh (Care Taker, Police Lines), SI Ashwani Kumar (Security), HC Naib Singh (PCR Vehicle, Sugar-14), HC Surjit Singh (PCR Vehicle, Sugar-14), HC Ram Mehar (Wireless Operator), HC Dalbir (Static Guards), Sr. Const. Lal Bahadur (SIT, SDPO East), Sr. L/Const. Renu Sharma (PS-26), Sr. L/Const. Santosh Kumari (Dy. DA branch, PHQ), Sr. Const. Jasbir Singh (MT Section), Sr. Const. Sarwan (High Court Security), C. Joginderpal (Drill Instructor), C. Satyawan (Wireless Operator), C. Ramkishan (Law&Order) L/C Savita (Security), Const. Vijay Kumar (IRB), L/Const. Paramjit Kaur (IRB), L/C Gurjit Kaur (Traffic Help Line), HC Amarjit Singh (PS-34), Vol. Ajay Dutt (O/o W/SSP), Vol. Kamal Kishore(PHQ Canteen).

The following civilians also rewarded by the Chief Guest and other officers with commendation certificate and cash Rs. 5,000/- each :-

1. Smt. Kamla, Peon, Govt. High School, Sector 26, Police Lines, Chandigarh: - She is performing her duty in Govt. High School, Sector 26, Police Lines, Chandigarh as peon. She is very dedicated, hard worker and sincere towards her duty. 2. Sh. Udeyvir R/o # 18, Ph-3, Mohali (PB): - He played a crucial role to apprehend a motor cyclist culprit who snatched away a bag containing a Camera from a person near Badheri barrier, Chandigarh. In this regard a case FIR No. 34 dated 21.01.2018 u/s 356, 379 IPC, was registered at PS-39, Chandigarh.

110. 02.02.2018 Special Drive against drug paddlers Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers a special drive was carried out by Crime Branch, Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh and during the drive four persons were arrested possessing Heroin, Injections and Opium from the different places of Chandigarh. The following cases have been registered against the accused persons. Case FIR No. 45 Dated 31.1.2018 U/S 21 NDPS Act, PS-34, Chandigarh Accused Harjinder Singh S/o Sh. Sawinder Singh, Sec.70, Mohali. 5.80 gram Heroin has been recovered from the aforesaid accused on 31.1.2018 near Dev Samaj College, Sec.45, Chandigarh.

Case FIR No. 50 Dated 01.02.2018 U/S 22 NDPS Act, PS-39, Chandigarh Accused Baldev Singh @ Balli s/o Labh Singh r/o Sector-41/D, Chandigarh. Age 34 Years. 30 injections i.e. 15 Buprenorphine Injections (2ml each) and 15 pheniramine maleate injections (10 ml each) has been recovered from the aforesaid accused on 01.02.2018 near T-Point Sector-40 C&D, Dividing Road, Sector-40/55, Chandigarh.

Case FIR No. 48 dated 01.02.2018 u/s 22 NDPS Act, PS-31, Chandigarh. Accused Updesh Singh @ Raju s/o Gurbaj Singh r/o Bank Wali Gali, Hissar Road, Durga Nagar, Ambala City, Haryana. Age 33 years. Two Hundred injections i.e. 100 Buprenorphine Injections (2ml each) and 100 pheniramine maleate injections (10 ml each) has been recovered from the aforesaid accused on 01.02.2018 near Kachha Rasta, Hallo, Chandigarh. Updesh Singh @ Raju is main supplier of injections in Chandigarh and he has been nabbed near Kachha Rasta Hallo Majra, Chandigarh on his Activa Scooter without number plate while he was coming to Chandigarh to deliver the consignment to different drug addicts. On interrogation he has disclosed that he has brought these injections from Saharanpur (UP) from one Vasim Khan.

Case FIR No.40 dated 02.02.2018 u/s 18 NDPS Act, PS-11, Chandigarh. Accused Vijay Pal s/o Rewa Ram r/o Village Khuda Ali Sher, Chd.

In this case 500 gram Opium has been recovered from the accused on 02.02.2018 near Bhim Rao, Ambedkar Stadium, Village Khuda Alisher, Chandigarh. During interrogation he has revealed that he has brought this contraband from Jharkhand on cheaper rate and was looking for customers in Chandigarh to sell this opium at handsome price.

The drive against this drug menace will carry on for next coming days.

111. 30.01.2018 Award function to recognize good work done by civilians, police officials and Home Guards.

An award function was held at GO‟s Mess, Police Lines, Sector 26, Chandigarh to recognize the good work done by Civilians, police officials and Home Guards on the basis of monthly and six monthly performances. Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, Advisor to the Administrator, UT, Chandigarh was the Chief Guest at the function. Sh. Tajender Singh Luthra, IPS, Director General of Police along with other senior Police Officers were present during the function.

On this occasion, police personnel who retired from police services after attaining the age of superannuation were also honored by the Chief Guest Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, Advisor to the Administrator accompanied by Sh. Tajender Singh Luthra, IPS, DGP/UT, Chd, Dr. O.P. Mishra, IPS, DIG/UT, Sh. Shashank Anand, IPS, SSP/Traffic & Security, Ms. Nilambari Jagdale, IPS, SSP/UT, Sh. Eish Singhal, IPS, SP/Head Quarters and Sh. Ravi Kumar, IPS, SP/Operations & Crime, other Police Officers including DSPs and Inspectors were also present at the Function. The police officers and other officials who retired after attaining the age of superannuation are Insp. (ORP) Ravi Kishor, Insp. (ORP) Jasmit Singh, Insp. (ORP) Satnam Singh, Insp. (ORP) Avjinder Singh, SI Ramesh Kumar, SI (ORP) Inderjit Singh, ASI (ORP) Lajwanti, ASI (ORP) Bikram Singh, HC Jagdish Singh, HC (ORP) Laxman Singh, Constable Amarjit Singh. The families of retired police officers were also invited on this occasion as a Guest of Honor.

The following 08 police personnel have been rewarded with suitable cash rewards and Commendation Certificate for their good work and best performances in their assigned duties during last six (06) months.

Sr. No. Rank Name & Number Unit 9. Insp. Amanjot Singh, 474/CHG I/C Anti Snatching, Robbery & Dacoity Cell 10. SI Naveen Kumar, 1070/CHG Anti Snatching, Robbery & Dacoity Cell 11. SI Satinder Kumar, 803 CHG CCIC

12. HC Balwinder Singh, 2532/CP Reader, DSP W&CSU

13. HC Rakesh Singh, 2525/CP PS-36

14. HC Pardeep Kumar, 3318/CP Police Lines

15. Sr. C. Rajinder Singh, 1353/CP Reader, CLI, RTC

16. C. Vijay Kumar, 1590/CP CID

The following police personnel / Home Guard Volunteers have also been rewarded with suitable cash rewards and Commendation Certificate for their good work and best performances in their assigned duties during the month of December - 2017.

SI Sharanjit Singh (Line Officer, Traffic Staff), SI Kulwant Singh (Care Taker, Police Lines), SI Ashwani Kumar (Security), HC Naib Singh (PCR Vehicle, Sugar-14), HC Surjit Singh (PCR Vehicle, Sugar-14), HC Ram Mehar (Wireless Operator), HC Dalbir (Static Guards), Sr. Const. Lal Bahadur (SIT, SDPO East), Sr. L/Const. Renu Sharma (PS-26), Sr. L/Const. Santosh Kumari (Dy. DA branch, PHQ), Sr. Const. Jasbir Singh (MT Section), Sr. Const. Sarwan (High Court Security), C. Joginderpal (Drill Instructor), C. Satyawan (Wireless Operator), C. Ramkishan (Law&Order) L/C Savita (Security), Const. Vijay Kumar (IRB), L/Const. Paramjit Kaur (IRB), L/C Gurjit Kaur (Traffic Help Line), HC Amarjit Singh (PS-34), Vol. Ajay Dutt (O/o W/SSP), Vol. Kamal Kishore(PHQ Canteen).

The following civilians also rewarded by the Chief Guest and other officers with commendation certificate and cash Rs. 5,000/- each :- 3. Smt. Kamla, Peon, Govt. High School, Sector 26, Police Lines, Chandigarh: - She is performing her duty in Govt. High School, Sector 26, Police Lines, Chandigarh as peon. She is very dedicated, hard worker and sincere towards her duty. 4. Sh. Udeyvir R/o # 18, Ph-3, Mohali (PB): - He played a crucial role to apprehend a motor cyclist culprit who snatched away a bag containing a Camera from a person near Badheri barrier, Chandigarh. In this regard a case FIR No. 34 dated 21.01.2018 u/s 356, 379 IPC, was registered at PS-39, Chandigarh.

112. 02.02.2018 Special Drive against drug paddlers Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers a special drive was carried out by Crime Branch, Chandigarh under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh and during the drive four persons were arrested possessing Heroin, Injections and Opium from the different places of Chandigarh. The following cases have been registered against the accused persons. Case FIR No. 45 Dated 31.1.2018 U/S 21 NDPS Act, PS-34, Chandigarh Accused Harjinder Singh S/o Sh. Sawinder Singh, Sec.70, Mohali. 5.80 gram Heroin has been recovered from the aforesaid accused on 31.1.2018 near Dev Samaj College, Sec.45, Chandigarh.

Case FIR No. 50 Dated 01.02.2018 U/S 22 NDPS Act, PS-39, Chandigarh Accused Baldev Singh @ Balli s/o Labh Singh r/o Sector-41/D, Chandigarh. Age 34 Years. 30 injections i.e. 15 Buprenorphine Injections (2ml each) and 15 pheniramine maleate injections (10 ml each) has been recovered from the aforesaid accused on 01.02.2018 near T-Point Sector-40 C&D, Dividing Road, Sector-40/55, Chandigarh.

Case FIR No. 48 dated 01.02.2018 u/s 22 NDPS Act, PS-31, Chandigarh. Accused Updesh Singh @ Raju s/o Gurbaj Singh r/o Bank Wali Gali, Hissar Road, Durga Nagar, Ambala City, Haryana. Age 33 years. Two Hundred injections i.e. 100 Buprenorphine Injections (2ml each) and 100 pheniramine maleate injections (10 ml each) has been recovered from the aforesaid accused on 01.02.2018 near Kachha Rasta, Hallo, Chandigarh. Updesh Singh @ Raju is main supplier of injections in Chandigarh and he has been nabbed near Kachha Rasta Hallo Majra, Chandigarh on his Activa Scooter without number plate while he was coming to Chandigarh to deliver the consignment to different drug addicts. On interrogation he has disclosed that he has brought these injections from Saharanpur (UP) from one Vasim Khan.

Case FIR No.40 dated 02.02.2018 u/s 18 NDPS Act, PS-11, Chandigarh. Accused Vijay Pal s/o Rewa Ram r/o Village Khuda Ali Sher, Chd.

In this case 500 gram Opium has been recovered from the accused on 02.02.2018 near Bhim Rao, Ambedkar Stadium, Village Khuda Alisher, Chandigarh. During interrogation he has revealed that he has brought this contraband from Jharkhand on cheaper rate and was looking for customers in Chandigarh to sell this opium at handsome price.

The drive against this drug menace will carry on for next coming days.

113. 14.02.2018 Anti Homicide, Burglary and other Heinous Crimes Cell of Crime Branch, UT/Chandigarh has succeeded in arresting three accused persons namely Sukhwinder Singh @ Sukha s/o Som Dutta r/o H.No.1798, Adarsh Nagar, Naya Gaon, Mohali, Raj Kumar s/o Babu Ram r/o H.No. 1835, Adarsh Nagar, Naya Gaon, Mohali, Punjab and Sagar Masih s/o Sh. Munna Dass r/o H.No. 159, Shivalik Vihar, Zirakpur, Mohali, Punjab and with their arrest eight (08) cases of vehicle theft have been worked out.

On 14.02.2018, on a tip of, a team consisting Inspector Dalbir Singh, SI Shiv Charan and other officials of Anti Homicide, Burglary and other Heinous Crimes Cell of Crime Branch, Sector-11, Chandigarh under the close supervision of DSP/Crime laid a naka near Small Chowk, Sector-11, Chandigarh. During checking, the team apprehended above said accused persons alongwith a Motor Cycle (triple riding) bearing registration No.PB65-M-1981, make-Royal Enfield while they were coming from Sector-11, Market side. On further checking, the registration number of the said vehicle found fake and the original number found HR22-K-9888. The said Motor Cycle found to be stolen vide FIR No. 334 dated 14.11.2017 u/s 379,411, 473 IPC, PS-11, Chandigarh. All the three accused were arrested in the said case.

During interrogation, they disclosed that they have stolen number of vehicles from the different part of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali. On 15.02.2018, upon their disclosure statement, all accused were produced before the Hon‟ble District Court, Sector-43, Chandigarh and obtained 02 days police custody remand for further investigation.

During the course of further investigation, 08 stolen vehicles (01 four wheeler and 07 two wheelers) have been recovered at their instance which led to solving of 08 cases of vehicle theft registered with different police stations of the tri-city. The details of these cases are as under:-

SN Case FIR No. Date, u/s & PS Recovered Vehicle 5. FIR No. 334 dated 14.11.2017 u/s 379,411, 473 IPC, PS-11, Royal Enfield motor cycle Chandigarh.

6. FIR No. 322 dated 01.11.2017 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-11, Royal Enfield motor cycle Chandigarh.

7. FIR No. 262 dated 20.12.2017 u/s 379,411, IPC, PS-Maloya, Splender motor cycle Chandigarh. 8. FIR No. 120 dated 24.04. 2017 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-34, Pulsar motor cycle Chandigarh.

On the basis of disclosure statement suffered by accused persons 01 Four Wheeler Vehicle i.e. Willy Jeep and 03 Two Wheelers i.e. 02 Duke KTM Motor Cycles and 01 Splender Motor Cycle were recovered which were taken in police possession u/s 102 Cr.P.C. During the course of investigation, these vehicles found stolen in the cases registered at Mohali & Panchkula. The detail of same is as under:-

Four Wheeler taken u/s 102 Cr.P.C

SN Case FIR No. Make 6. FIR No. 07 dated 16.02.2018 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-Naya Gaon, Willy Jeep Mohali, Punjab.

Two Wheelers taken u/s 102 Cr.P.C SN Case FIR No. Make 25. FIR No. 08 dated 16.02.2018 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-Naya Motor Cycle make Duke Gaon, Punjab. 200 KTM 26. FIR No. 294 dated 30.11.2017 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-Sector- Motor Cycle make Duke 14 Panchkula, Haryana. 200 KTM 27. FIR No. 258 dated 18.09.2017 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-Sector- Motor Cycle make Chandi Mandir, Panchkula, Haryana. Splender

Modus Operandi

Accused Sukhwinder Singh @ Sukha use to steal Royal Enfield Vehicles for joy rides and to impress his friends. In order to fulfil his desires, he took the help of his associates for stealing the two wheeler vehicles.

During the course of investigation, they confessed that they had also stolen two motor cycles make Royal Enfield and Splender in the area of PS-39 and PS-IA, UT/Chandigarh. After record verification, it came to light that the same were stolen in FIR No. 316 dated 31.07.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh and FIR No. 209 dated 26.07.2017 dated 14.01.2017 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh. Today i.e. 17.02.2018, accused produced before the court and obtained 02 days police remand to recover the stolen vehicles. The investigation is being conducted to recover the remaining stolen vehicles and more stolen vehicles recovery likely to be effected from the accused during the police remand. 114. 03.03.2018 Vehicle Lifter/History Sheeter arrested

In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested the most notorious vehicle lifter namely Kuldeep Singh @ Dana S/o Sh. Jai Singh r/o # 3181, Manmohan Nagar, Ambala City, Haryana involved in auto lifting from Chandigarh.

On 25.2.18, secret information was received that above said accused persons who is involved in several cases of vehicle lifting is presently roaming in the area of Police Station Sector 3, Chandigarh. On the basis of that secret information the naka was laid and Kuldeep Singh was apprehended while he was trying to steal another car from Kaimbwala. With his arrest total 12 cases have been worked out. Out of which 11 are of vehicle theft (i.e. 3 are cars and 8 are two wheelers) and 1 of gold chain snatching.

The accused Kuldeep Singh has a tainted past and he has been arrested several times in the past. He has been arrested in approximately 175 cases earlier. In recent two years he has been arrested by Mohali, Zirakpur, Panchkula, Ambala, Yamuna Nagar, Fatehgarsahib, Ropar, Karnal and Chandigarh Police. He was first arrested in the year 2004 for stereo theft. Chandigarh Police has arrested him previously in 27 cases of theft.

The cases solved with their arrest are as under: Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS State No. 25. 25/22.2.18 379,411 IPC 3 Chandigarh 26. 51/6.2.18 356,379 IPC 3 Chandigarh 27. 20/12.1.18 379,411 IPC MM Chandigarh 28. 201/13.9.16 379,411 IPC MM Chandigarh 29. 180/13.7.17 379,411 IPC IA Chandigarh 30. 333/13.8.17 379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh 31. 10/4.1.18 379,411 IPC 26 Chandigarh 32. 115/13.6.17 379,411 IPC MM Chandigarh 33. 283/17.9.17 379,411 IPC 11 Chandigarh 34. 40/28.1.18 379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh 35. 195/6.8.18 379,411 IPC IA Chandigarh 36. 127/9.8.17 379,411 IPC 19 Chandigarh

115. 05.04.2018 Gang of carjackers/robbers arrested by Crime Branch The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police led by Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested the most notorious gang of carjackers, robbers and who are also involved in kidnapping and other offences in the area of Chandigarh and Punjab.

3. Yodha Singh @ Jodha S/o Puran Singh Vill. Bhoepur Teh. Shahkot, Distt. Jalandhar. Age 24 years. 4. Gulab Singh S/o Puran Singh Vill. Bhoepur Teh. Shahkot, Distt. Jalandhar. Age 28 years. 5. Amrik Singh @ Mikka S/o Tarsem Singh R/o C/o Satnam Singh, back side Gurudwara, Vill. Kansal, PS. Nayagaon, Distt. Mohali. Age 34 years. 6. Devender Singh @ Heer Singh S/o Swarn Singh R/o Vill. Nahiwala PS. Raniya Distt. Sirsa. Haryana. Age 32 years. Yodha Singh @ Jodha was previously arrested on 6.1.2018 alongwith Lovepreet Singh and later in the case Balraj Singh, Gurvinder Singh @ Shelly and Gurvinder Singh @ Motta were also arrested, but on 6.2.2018 Jodha Singh escaped from the custody of police from Khanna Petrol Pump while the police party was returning after producing him in Faridkot court.

On 5.4.2018 a secret information was received that the persons who were involved in several cases of robberies, carjacking and kidnapping were roaming in the area of Chandigarh and if the naka be laid specifically in the Jeeri Mandi, Maloya area road leading to Punjab, they can be apprehended. On the basis of secret information the naka was laid and both Jodha and Amrik Singh, Devender and Gulab Singh were apprehended while they were travelling in robbed I20 car, this car was robbed in case FIR No. 91 dated 21.3.2018 u/s 392 IPC and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-36, Chandigarh from the furniture market, Sec.53, Chandigarh.

During the preliminary interrogation the accused in custody confessed that they are involved in several cases of Carjacking, robberies and kidnappings, from their interrogation till now Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police is able to establish their involved in 6 cases.

1. FIR No. 46 dated 13.3.2018 u/s 341,365,392,34 IPC and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-49, Chandigarh. 2. FIR No. 91 dated 21.3.2018 u/s 392 IPC and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-36, Chandigarh. 3. FIR No. 39 dated 22.1.2018 u/s 392 IPC and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-39, Chandigarh. 4. FIR No. 26 dated 27.2.2018 u/s 341,365,392,34 IPC and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-3. 5. FIR No. 26 dated 13.2.2018 u/s 379 IPC PS-Sahkot, Jalandhar. 6. FIR No. 27 dated 7.2.2018 u/s 224 IPC PS-Sadar, Khanna

All the four accused had a tainted past:- Accused Devender was earlier arrested in 6 cases, out of which one is of Murder, one is of Attempt to Murder, one is of Arms Act, one is of Rape and two are of Robbery. Accused Gulab Singh was earlier arrested in NDPS Act and Hurt case, whereas in NDPS case he has been sentenced for 10 years and recently was granted bail in said case by Hon‟ble Punjab and Haryana High Court. Accused Amrik was earlier arrested in 7 cases, out of which four are of vehicle theft, one is of NDPS Act, one is of obstructing the police officer from performing his duty and one of escaping from lawful custody. (He has been declared PO in all these cases.) Accused Yodha was arrested earlier in NDPS case and in which he has been convicted for 10 years.

Accused Yodha and Gulab are real brother and Amrik Singh is their Brother-in-Law. Amrik Singh is involved in previous 6 cases of Chandigarh in which he was not arrested so far. The investigation of the case is in progress and more recoveries are likely to be effected from them.

116. 05.04.2018 Gang of Snatchers & Vehicle lifters busted In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Dalbir Singh arrested three snatchers and vehicle lifters on 05.04.2018 who were involved in the incidents of snatching and two wheeler vehicle lifting from UT/Chandigarh.

4. Ankush Shah s/o Dana Singh r/o H.No. 362, Village-Burail, Chandigarh, age-24 yrs.

5. Amit Singh Gill s/o Ravinder Singh Gill r/o H.No. 2103, Sector-24, Chandigarh age-21 yrs.

6. Vinayak Asri s/o Govind Sharma r/o Plot No. 22, Balaji Enclave, Zirakpur, Punjab, age-24 yrs.

During the interrogation of these accused, it has been revealed that they are involved in two cases of snatchings and three cases of vehicle lifting from Chandigarh. With the arrest of these accused, Anti Homicide, Burglary & Other Heinous Crime Cell headed by Inspector Dalbir Singh, Crime Branch is able to solve total 05 cases out of which 2 are of purse snatchings and 03 cases vehicle theft.

The modus operandi of these accused is that they used to theft two wheeler vehicles from the area of UT/Chandigarh and after that by using these stolen vehicles, they targeted ladies for purse snatching. They snatched purses for the purpose of living luxurious life and in order to buy drugs. Out of three, one accused Ankush Shah has a tainted past and involved in a murder case of PS-39, Chandigarh. With the arrest of the above three accused, the 05 cases have been worked out. 117. 21.04.2018 Gang of robbers & snatchers arrested by Crime Branch

In a major breakthrough, Anti Homicide, Burglary & Other Heinous Crimes Cell of Crime Branch headed by Inspector Dalbir Singh under the close supervision of Sh. Ravi Kumar, IPS, W/SP/Crime and Sh. Amaro Singh, DSP/Crime arrested a gang of robbers, snatchers, vehicle lifters and drug peddler who were involved in the incidents of robbery, snatching, vehicle lifting and drug peddling in UT/Chandigarh. The name of arrested accused are as under:-

7. Vikram @ Vicky s/o Darshan Singh r/o Village-Banse, PS-Mullanpur, District-Mohali, Punjab, age- 23 yrs.

8. Devinder Singh s/o Jaspal Singh r/o H.No. 108, Village-Rani Majra, PS-Mullanpur, District- Mohali, Punjab, age-19 yrs.

9. Abhishek Chaudhary @ Avi @ Badri s/o Richhpal Singh r/o H.No. 251, Village-Dhanas, UT/Chandigarh, age-20 yrs.

10. Arun Kumar s/o Ved Parkash r/o H.No. 3253, Sector-44/D, Chandigarh, age-24 yrs.

On, 17.04.2018, on a tip off, team of Anti Homicide, Burglary & Other Heinous Crimes Cell of Crime Branch headed by SI Gurmeet Singh laid a naka near Dhanas Lake, UT/Chandigarh and apprehended two accused namely Vikram @ Vicky and Devinder Singh while they were coming from Dhanas lake side on a motorcycle. During search of the both accused, one mobile phone make Micromax has been recovered from their possession. The recovered mobile found to be stolen in case FIR No. 53 dated 09.03.2018 u/s 379, 356, 34 IPC, PS-Sarangpur, UT/Chandigarh by the above said accused persons. Further, during the interrogation of these accused, it has been revealed that they are also involved in another case of vehicle theft i.e. Activa having registration No. CH04-F-2136. On, 20.04.2018, an accused namely Abhishek Chaudhary @ Avi @ Badri s/o Richhpal Singh r/o H.No. 251, Village-Dhanas, UT/Chandigarh, age-20 yrs has been arrested at a naka near Sector-14/25 road to Dhanas road turn laid by Anti Homicide, Burglary & Other Heinous Crimes Cell of Crime Branch headed by SI Shiv Charan while, accused was coming from Dhanas side. During search of accused, one mobile phone makes Oppo and a knife (Kamanidar knife) has been recovered from his possession. The recovered mobile phone found robbed in case FIR No. 105 dated 19.04.2018 u/s 392, 411 IPC, PS-Sarangpur, UT/Chandigarh by the above said accused. Accused Abhishek robbed this mobile phone from the complainant Vipin Kumar s/o Raj Kumar resident of Dhanas, Chandigarh at Dhanas Lake on 19.04.2018 by threatening/showing him Kamanidar Knife. Further, during the course of investigation, two cases, one of snatching of mobile phone and one of vehicle theft of Hero Splender Motor Cycle also worked out by recovering stolen property from the possession of accused Abhishek. In an another incident, on 18.04.2018, while a team of Anti Homicide, Burglary & Other Heinous Crimes Cell of Crime Branch lead by SI Desh Raj was on patrolling duty in market, Sector- 44/D, Chandigarh, the team apprehended one accused namely Arun Kumar s/o Ved Parkash r/o H.No. 3253, Sector-44/D, Chandigarh and recovered 21 gms Heroin from his possession without any license and permit. In this regard, case FIR No. 140 dated 18.04.2018 u/s 21 NDPS Act, PS-34, Chandigarh has been registered against the accused. With the arrest of the above accused persons, the following 06 cases have been solved out:-

SN FIR Date U/S PS Items recovered No. 30. 53 09.03.2018 379, 356, 34, 411 IPC Sarangpur Micromax Mobile Phone 31. 276 06.09.2017 379, 411 IPC 31 Activa

32. 105 19.04.2018 392, 411 IPC Sarangpur Oppo Mobile, Kamanidar knife 33. 96 18.04.2018 356, 379, 34, 411 IPC Mauli Jagran Redimi Mobile Phone

34. 197 10.12.2016 379,411 IPC 3 Motor Cycle Hero Splender 35. 140 18.04.2018 21 NDPS 34 21 gms Heroin

Modus Operandi The modus operandi of accused Abhishek is that he used to Kamanidar Knife for robbing the victims. All the arrested accuseds are drug addicts and in order to fulfil their drug requirement, they robbed, snatched and lifting the vehicles in the jurisdiction of UT/Chandigarh, so that they can get the money from the stolen items.

118. 25.04.2018 Drug peddler arrested In a breakthrough, Anti Homicide, Burglary & Other Heinous Crimes Cell of Crime Branch headed by Inspector Dalbir Singh under the close supervision Sh. Amaro Singh, DSP/Crime and guidance of Worthy/SP/Crime, Sh. Ravi Kumar, IPS, arrested a drug peddler namely Nawab Ali s/o Nanja r/o H.No.113, Village-Dadu Majra, Chandigarh who was involved in the incident of drug peddling in U.T., Chandigarh. On, 25.04.2018, SI Shiv Charan alongwith the police officials of Crime Branch laid a naka near Water Works, Village-Dadu Majra, U.T., Chandigarh and apprehended accused Nawab Ali by recovering 09 gms Heroin from his possession without having any license and permit. In the matter, a case FIR No.102 dated 25.04.2018 u/s 21 NDPS Act has been registered in Police Station-Maloya, Chandigarh against accused Nawab Ali.

119. 28.04.2018 Two absconding persons arrested for Cheating In a major breakthrough, Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Sh. Amrao Singh, DSP/Crime-cum-Training under the guidance of Sh. Ravi Kumar Singh, IPS, W/SP/Crime-cum-Operation, succeeded in arresting two absconded accused i.e., owner of Foreign Horizons Overseas Consultants, SCO No. 126/127, Sector-8/C, Chandigarh who cheated a lot of gullible people with a tune of approximately 20 Crores rupees on the pretext of sending them abroad on study visa. The detail of accused is as under:

11. Arvind Ashat s/o Sh. Jagdish Singh Ashat r/o H.No. F202, KLV Signature Tower, Sector-66/A, Mohali, Punjab, age-42 yrs.

12. Tanisha Ashat w/o Arvind Ashat r/o H.No. F202, KLV Signature Tower, Sector-66/A, Mohali, Punjab, age-36 yrs.

The facts of the case are as:- The above said case was registered on the complaints of Mr. Rupinder Singh & others namely Karwaljit Singh Brar, Geetika Thakuar and Kesar Singh, who individually filed complaint against the main accused Arvind Ashat & other namely Kartik @ Pupinder Sood, Shikha, Simran, Garima, Ridhima @ Pooja, Deepika & others of M/S Foreign Horizons Overseas Consultants, SCO No. 126, Sector 8/C, Chandigarh. They, all alleged in their complaints that the alleged persons have cheated them on the pretext of sending them abroad on study visa, but even after spent a long time, the alleged persons neither send them abroad nor refund the said amount. Further, during the course of enquiry, it revealed that all the complainants gave amount to the alleged through RTGS, NEFT and Cheques, but neither they send them abroad neither return their hard earned money. After coming solid evidences on enquiry file against the alleged persons, a case FIR No. 50 dated 31.03.17 u/s 420, 120-B IPC, PS-03, U.T., Chandigarh was registered against accused Arvind Ashat s/o Jagdish Singh R/o H.No. 3301, Sector 71, SAS Nagar, Mohali Punjab 2. Pupinder Sood @ Kartik s/o Sh. Jagbir Singh r/o 1269 DMC, Chandigarh, 3. Sikha w/o Nitin Sharma r/o H.No. 244 Phase-1, Mohali, Punjab. 4. Gurpreet Singh s/o Mohan Singh r/o H.No. 89, New Darshni Bag, Mani Majra, Chandigarh. 5. Jagat Singh s/o Madan Singh r/o 274, Nada Road Naya Gaon, Distt Mohali Punjab. On 31.03.2018, two accused namely Gurpeet Singh s/o Mohan Singh r/o H. No. 89, New Darshani Bagh, Mani Majra, Chandigarh and Jagat Singh s/o Madan Lal r/o H. No. 274, Nada Road Nadiala, Naya Gaon, Punjab have been arrested on 31.03.2017 and in their disclosure statements u/s 27/E Act, they disclosed that complainants/clients approached them and further they (accused) arranged the meeting with Shikha, Kartik & others, who further arranged the final meeting with the main accused namely Arvind Ashat accordingly and further settle the amount to be paid by the complainants/clients. Thereafter, the alleged persons received the settled amount from the complainants/clients by cash, through RTGS etc on the pretext of processing fees, college fees, medical fees, Embassy Fees etc in respect of sending them abroad. During the course of investigation, lot of people i.e., total 373 people approached investigation officer and also provided him their complaints regarding cheating them by accused Arvind Ashat and his wife Tanisha Ashat etc.

After found no way to escape, accused persons approached Hon‟ble High Court for anticipatory bail. The Hon‟ble Court has passed interim orders on 20.4.2017, therein the counsel for the alleged assured that the petitioner/alleged would disburse the due payment to the said victims after obtaining the receipt and return of the documents, if any earlier executed by petitioner for refunding the amount and that the petitioner further intends to return the amount received from the different victims numbering almost 163 as per the list provided by the police prepared in the course of investigation, but the petitioner required time for returning the amount and also the documents furnished by the said victims to the police in the court of investigation were to be verified and also ascertained by the petitioner in the course of joining of the investigation and the petitioner would make the payment of victims in the batches of 20 each after a gap of fifteen days for each batch. That, it is also pertinent to mention here that the fourth complainant in the present case namely Kesar Singh visit in the police station, who verbally disclosed that the counsel of the alleged have gave him part payment cheque, which has again bounced and the alleged person did not give his complete amount. That, it revealed that the alleged person is misleading the Hon‟ble Court by assuring that he would refund the said amount, but no any complainant/victim come forwarded before the investigating agency who assured that the alleged person had refund their amount. In between, complainants also made request before Hon‟ble Punjab and Haryana High Court for transfer the investigation to CBI with the allegations that officials of Police Station did nothing in this case. The next date of hearing of this case is fixed for 07.05.2018 for status report. On 04.04.2018, in view of the importance of case, senior officers constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the close supervision of DSP/Crime for investigating the case on priority. A team headed by SI Jaivir Singh under the close supervision of undersigned worked dedicatedly day and night and issued Look Out Circular against both the main culprits Arvind and Tanisha Ashat as well as freeze almost all the bank accounts and bank lockers of alleged, obtained bank records and conducted a lot of raids at their possible hideouts i.e., in Amritsar and Mohali area and as a result of their hard work, on 26.04.2018, members of SIT succeeded in rounded up both main culprit of this case Arvind Ashat and Tanisha Ashat from Mohali, Punjab. Further, during the course of investigation, the vehicle of accused containing documents pertaining to the crime, stamps of their company and related documents have been recovered at their instance.

120. 05.05.2018 Drug Pedlars arrested In a breakthrough, Anti Snatching, Dacoity & Robbery Crimes Cell of Crime Branch headed by Inspector Amanjot Singh under the close supervision Sh. Amaro Singh, DSP/Crime and guidance of Worthy/SP/Crime, Sh. Ravi Kumar, IPS, arrested two drug peddlers by registering two separate cases against them under NDPS Act who were involved in the incident of drug peddling in the area of UT, Chandigarh. On, 05.05.2018, Sub-Inspector Satwinder Singh along with the police officials of Crime Branch while patrolling near Airport Light Point, Chandigarh apprehended one person and recovered 200 injections i.e., 100 injections of Pheniramine and 100 of Buprenorphine from his possession. In the matter, a case FIR No. 214 dated 05.05.2018 u/s 22 NDPS Act, PS-31, UT/Chandigarh has been registered against Mukesh. 2nd Case On, 05.05.2018, Sub Inspector Naveen Kumar alongwith the police officials of Crime Branch while on patrolling near Maloya Turn, Water Works, Chandigarh apprehended one person age-30 yrs by recovering 50 injections i.e., 25 injections of Pheniramine and 25 of Buprenorphine from his possession. In the matter, a case FIR No. 110 dated 05.05.2018 u/s 22 NDPS Act, PS-Maloya, UT/Chandigarh has been registered against Kulbir Singh.

121. 18.05.2018 Snatching, Auto lifting, Burglary cases solved Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to arrest the most notorious persons involved in recent snatchings and auto lifting from Chandigarh.

On 13.5.18 a secret information was received that the accused persons were involved in several cases of snatching and vehicle lifting presently roaming in the area of Police Station Maloya, Chandigarh. On the basis of secret information the naka was laid and two of them were apprehended while they were looking for their prey. All were arrested and on further interrogation and investigation total 12 cases were worked out. Out of which 8 are snatching and 4 are of vehicle theft.

The cases solved with their arrest are as under: Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS State No. 37. 123/11.5.18 356,379,34,411 IPC Maloya Chandigarh 38. 56/8.3.18 356,379,323,34,411 Maloya Chandigarh. IPC 39. 104/27.4.18 356,379,34,411 IPC Maloya Chandigarh 40. 150/9.5.18 356,379,411 IPC 17 Chandigarh 41. 68/19.2.18 356,379,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh 42. 89/20.3.18 356,379,34,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh. 43. 173/3.5.18 356,379,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh 44. 2/1.1.18 356,379,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh. 45. 145/20.4.18 379,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh 46. 123/9.12.17 379,411 IPC 49 Chandigarh 47. 485/19.11.17 379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh 48. 17/19.1.18 379,411 IPC Sarangpur Chandigarh

Besides this, two persons who were involved in several burglaries and house theft in Chandigarh were also arrested by Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh. On 13.5.18 secret information was received that the above said accused persons were involved in burglaries and house theft presently roaming in the area of Police Station 11, Chandigarh. On the basis of secret information the naka was laid and both of them were apprehended and from further interrogation and investigation total 6 cases of burglaries and house theft were solved, in which huge amount of gold and silver ornaments are recovered. The cases solved with their arrest are as under: Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS State No. 49. 288/22.9.17 380,411 IPC 11 Chandigarh 50. 311/16.10.17 379,411 IPC 11 Chandigarh 51. 29/24.1.15 380,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh 52. 85/12.2.18 380,457,411 IPC MM Chandigarh 53. 537/29.12.17 380,454,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh 54. 202/2.5.18 380,457,411 IPC MM Chandigarh

122. 04.06.2018 Snatching & auto lifting cases solved by Crime Branch

In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to arrest the most infamous persons involved in recent snatchings and auto lifting from Chandigarh. From arrested four persons total 13 cases were worked out. Out of which 2 are of snatching, 1 of theft and 10 are of vehicle theft. On the basis of interrogation of main accused two more persons who were juvenile were apprehended on 31.5.2018 and from them two stolen motor cycles were recovered from both of them. Further one more accused was arrested on 3.6.2018 and from him one mobile phone was recovered. The interrogation of main accused revealed that he committed approximately 15 snatchings in the area of Mohali, Barmajra and Mullanpur, out of these snatching 7 mobile phones were recovered which were taken into possession under section 102 Cr.P.C. The cases solved with their arrest are as under: Sr. No. FIR /Date U/S PS State 55. 98/20.6.216 379,411 IPC 11 Chandigarh 56. 345/22.11.17 379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh 57. 461/6.12.17 379,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh 58. 326/10.12.17 379,411 IPC MM Chandigarh 59. 202/18.12.17 379,411 IPC S.pur Chandigarh 60. 48/4.2.18 379,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh 61. 108/12.3.18 379,411 IPC 31 Chandigarh 62. 137/27.3.18 379,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh 63. 137/19.4.18 379,356,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh 64. 112/19.4.18 379,356,411 IPC 19 Chandigarh 65. 111/29.4.18 379,411 IPC I.T Park Chandigarh 66. 190/15.5.18 379,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh 67. 200/24.5.18 379,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh

123. 30.06.2018 Snatching and Auto lifting cases solved by Crime Branch In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to arrest the most notorious persons involved in recent snatchings on bullet motor cycle and auto lifting from Chandigarh.

On 26.6.2018, a secret information was received that one person who is committing snatchings on Bullet Motor cycle is presently roaming in the area of Police Station 26, Chandigarh. On the basis of secret information the naka was laid and accused was apprehended while he was looking for his another prey. On 27.6.2018, One person (accused cousin) was arrested from Solan (HP) and was brought to Chandigarh and on his interrogation it has been revealed that even he has committed some snatchings with his cousin who has already been arrested by Crime Branch. Further on the interrogation and disclosure statements made by both, total 10 cases were worked out. Out of which 5 are snatching and 5 are of vehicle theft. (Bullet Motor Cycle which was used in crime was also recovered). Both are drug addicts and are in habit of consuming heroin. Presently they have taken Hotel on lease in Kumharhatti, Solan, HP and to pay the lease amount they were committing snatchings in the Tri-City. During further interrogation it has been revealed that both are involved in more than 25 cases of snatchings in tri-city. Apart from the above said recovery one motor cycle and 10 mobile phones were also recovered from them which were taken in possession u/s 102 Cr.P.C.

124. 04.07.2018 Two Drug peddlars arrested by Crime Branch In a breakthrough, Anti Snatching, Robbery and Dacoity Cell of Crime Branch headed by Insp. Amanjot Singh under the close supervision Sh. Amaro Singh, DSP/Crime and guidance of Worthy/SP/Crime, Sh. Ravi Kumar, IPS, arrested two drug peddlers namely Nwosu Nnaemeka and Yves Boavogui @ Nwosu who were involved in the incident of drug peddling in U.T., Chandigarh by registering two separate cases under NDPS Act against them. The detail of same are as under:- On, 04.07.2018, SI Satvinder Singh alongwith the police officials of Crime Branch laid a naka near Bus Stop Tribune Chowk and apprehended accused Nwosu Nnaemeka s/o Nwosu Ikechukwu r/o Barada city, near Power House, c/o Sadaji House, age-26 years, permanent add - Country Nigeria by recovering 40.40 gms Heroin from his possession without having any license and permit. In the matter, a case FIR No. 287 dated 04.07.2018 U/S 21 NDPS Act, PS-31, Chandigarh against accused Nwosu Nnaemeka. In another case, on, 04.07.2018, SI Naveen Kumar alongwith the police officials of Crime Branch laid a naka near Power House Industrial Area, Phase-1, Chandigarh and apprehended accused Yves Boavogui @ Nwosu S/o Lt. Ikechukwu Joel Nwosu R/o Conakry Guineenne near Mr. bigg‟s City Guineebasa, Country- Guinee, Now- Barara city, near power house, C/o Sada G house Distt. Ambala, HR, age 22 yrs by recovering 30 gms Heroin from his possession without having any license and permit. In the matter, a case Case FIR No. 203 dated 04.07.18 U/S 21 NDPS Act, PS-Ind Area, Chandigarh against accused Yves Boavogui.

125. 07.08.2018 Snatching and Auto lifting cases solved by Crime Branch

The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to

arrest the three boys involved in recent snatchings on Activa and auto lifting from Chandigarh.

On 4.8.2018 a secret information was received that one person who is committing snatchings on

Activa is presently roaming in the area of Police Station 31, Chandigarh. On the basis of secret

information the naka was laid and Honey @ Hariom was apprehended while he was looking for his

another prey and later on his associates Paras and Vikram were also apprehended on the same day.

With their arrest total 7 cases were worked out. Out of which 3 are snatching and 4 are of

vehicle theft.

They all are drug addicts and are in habit of consuming heroin. Vikram Singh has tainted past

and has already been arrested by Chandigarh Police in NDPS Act, Honey and Paras have also been

arrested in quarrel case.

The cases solved with their arrest are as under:

Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS State No. 68. 159/10.4.18 356,379,411 IPC 31 Chandigarh

69. 160/28.7.18 356,379,411 IPC 3 Chandigarh

70. 293/4.7.18 356,379,411 IPC MM Chandigarh

71. 167/21.6.18 379,411 IPC IT Chandigarh

Park

72. 231/17.7.18 379,411 IPC 26 Chandigarh

73. 260/18.12.17 379,411 IPC Maloya Chandigarh

74. 126/26.4.17 379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh

126. 11.08.2018 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police arrested International Cheaters involved in sneaking at ATM Machines

In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of DSP Sh. Pawan Kumar team headed by Insp. Amanjot Singh is able to arrest the most notorious International Cheaters who are recently involved in sneaking of different ATM machines by putting a skimmer and spy camera in the ATM room. 1. Miclea Lecian Lonut S/o Loan R/o Lenuta Liliana STR Tlarilor NR- 20 BL-7, Brasov Romania, Age 37 years. 2. Paraschiv George Aletandru S/o Gelu Glodei 13 Brasav Romania. Age 37 years.

Profile of accused

Name and Address Passport No. Issued from Validity till Arrived in India Miclea Lecian Lonut 6.10.2017 6.10.2022 10.7.18 to S/o Loan R/o Lenuta 7.9.18 Liliana STR Tlarilor NR- 20 BL-7, Brasov Romania age 37 years Paraschiv George 22.9.2017 22.9.2022 3.7.18 to Aletandru S/o Gelu 31.8.18 Glodei 13 Brasav Romania age 37 years

Cases registered

Recently on 4.8.2018 a complaint was received that someone has installed two external devices i.e. skimmer and spy camera in the Canara Bank ATM machine which is installed in SCO No. 117-119, Sec.17, Chandigarh. On the basis of this complaint the case FIR No. 262 dated 8.8.2018 u/s 420,511 IPC PS-17, Chandigarh got registered. In this regard the CCTV Footage installed in the ATM Room was examined and it has been found that two different persons are fitting these external devices to sneak the data of the ATM users. Similar complaints were received in Police Station Manimajra i.e. case FIR No. 339 dated 06.08.18 u/s 66 (C) 65D IT Act 420,511 IPC and Police Station Sec.36, Case FIR No. 287 dated 04.08.18 u/s 420,511 IPC Chandigarh.

Information collection

Keeping in view the gravity of the crime, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police collected information about such persons and on the basis of the information collected from the sources, it has come to notice that it is handy work of an International Gang and the persons who were involved in pilferage of ATM Data by using spy devices are Romanian Nationals. Further on the basis of this information entire record of the persons who visited in India in recent days were collected and on the basis of this record, it was established that two such persons namely Miclea Lecian Lonut and Paraschiv George Aletandru resided in the Hotels in Chandigarh i.e. Metro Sec.35 (Check-In Date 2.8.2018 Check- Out date 2.8.2018) and Western Court, Sec.43, Chandigarh (Check-In date 2.8.2018 and Check-Out date 5.8.2018) Western Court (Check-In date 7.8.2018 and Check-Out Date 7.8.2018). Further more information was developed and it has been established that both these persons were residing in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, on this information the team was immediately sent to New Delhi and these two persons who were residing in Hotel Glitz Westend Inn, NH-8 adjoining Shiv Murti Mahipalpur, Ranguri, New Delhi were arrested and brought to Chandigarh..

Modus operandi

On interrogation they have disclosed they arrived in India as visitors and further arrived in Chandigarh on 2.8.2018 with the intention to collect ATM data by putting spy devices and left Chandigarh on 5.8.2018 and again visited Chandigarh on 7.8.2018 with the purpose to collect the devices installed in different ATM machines. But all the devices have already been detected by the Bank Branches and have been removed from the ATM machines. It has revealed during the interrogation that after collecting the data they use to make a clone ATM cards and further use these cards for online shopping or withdrawing money internationally. To dodge the police and to confuse the bank employee they have purchased many accessories like caps, spectacles and even one wig which was used by them while putting these spy devices in the ATM rooms, so that if their footage comes out nobody able to recognize them or the investigating agencies will get confused about the identity and the numbers of persons involved.

Recoveries Caps, wig used by them for changing their outlook and the clothes worn by them at the time of fitting these devices were recovered. 127. 13.08.2018 Chandigarh Police arrested one more in ATM skimmer cases

In earlier breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of DSP Sh. Pawan Kumar team headed by Insp. Amanjot Singh was able to arrest the most notorious International Cheaters who recently involved in sneaking of different ATM machines by putting a skimmer and spy camera in the ATM room. In ATM Skimmer case one more person namely Attila Luhos has been arrested from Hotel Sands Inn, Sector 56, Gurugram (HR). Today he was produced in court and his 2 days remand has been obtained. Further 3 Days Remand has also been taken of earlier arrested persons in this case. Investigation of the case is in progress.

128. 17.08.2018 Snatchers arrested an snatching cases solved Two chain snatchers have been arrested and were found to be involved in more than 30 cases of snatching in tri city, both are Proclaim Offenders from Chandigarh since 2017. Profile of the Accused

Name Father‟s name Present Address Age Shane Alam @ Ashlam Sh. Jane Alam House No. 155 Vill. Abheypur Distt. 31 Years Panchkulla HR Dalip Kumar Mohinder Kumar Village Barabala, Distt. Sarsa, Bihar 24 years

On 14.08.18 a secret information was received that the persons who are involved in several cases of snatching and vehicle lifting presently roaming in the area of Police Station 49, Chandigarh. On the basis of secret information the naka was laid and two of them were apprehended while they were on their way to sell of one of the snatched gold chain. Modus Operandi

Both the accused have been arrested several times in the past. Both of them in the jail decided to club and after getting bail they started snatching gold chains from the tri city and lifting two wheelers. They used to steal two wheelers for snatching chains and they choose their target as women specially the older one so that they cannot chase or raise alarm immediately. With the fear of being caught every time they used to change vehicle for the commission of crime and after the commission of crime they used to abandon the vehicles in the free parking areas.

Recoveries

1. Five Gold Chains and a Gold locket. 2. Motor Cycles = 4. 3. Honda Activa =3. 4. Four two wheeler U/s 102 Cr.P.C

With their arrest total 14 cases were worked out. Out of which 5 are of chain snatchings, 7 are of vehicle theft and 2 are of P.O. Except this 4 two wheelers have been recovered from them which according to them they have stolen from Panchkula and Mohali.

The cases solved with their arrest are as under: Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS State No. 75. 114/11.06.18 356,379,34,411 IPC 49 Chandigarh 76. 152/02.06.18 356,380,457,411 IPC MJ Chandigarh. 77. 19/19.01.18 356,380,34,411 IPC Ind Area Chandigarh 78. 105/7.6.18 356,379,411 IPC 49 Chandigarh. 79. 35/22.1.18 356,379,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh. 80. 222/06.05.18 379, 411 IPC 31 Chandigarh 81. 62/18.04.18 379,411 IPC 03 Chandigarh 82. 208/28.05.18 379, 411 IPC 34 Chandigarh. 83. 187/02.05.18 379, 411 IPC 39 Chandigarh 84. 292/11.07.18 379, 411 IPC 31 Chandigarh 85. 360/19.09.17 379, 411 IPC 31 Chandigarh 86. 326/11.08.18 379, 411 IPC 39 Chandigarh

87. 373/23.9.15 224,34 IPC 36 Chandigarh Arrested as PO 88. 409/11.11.13 473,379,411,413 IPC 31 Chandigarh. Arrested as PO

129. 08.09.2018 Snatching cases solved with the arrest of four persons by Crime Branch In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of DSP Pawan Kumar team headed by Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to arrest the four persons who are involved in recent snatchings and auto lifting from Chandigarh.

Profile of accused.

1. Manpreet Singh S/o Nirmal Singh R/o Distt. Gurdaspur, PB age 35 years.

2. Lovish Kumar S/o Sh. Anil Kumar R/o Distt. Amritsar, PB age-22 years

3. Ajay Kumar S/o Harbans Lal R/o Distt, Firozpur, PB age 25 years, 4. Arvinder Singh @ Jugnu S/o Sh. Gurbaksh Singh R/o Ludhiana, PB age-25 years.

On 06.09.18 a secret information was received that the above said accused persons were involved in several cases of vehicle lifting and snatching presently roaming in the area of Police Station Maloya, Chandigarh. On the basis of secret information the naka was laid and two of them were apprehended. All were arrested and on further interrogation and investigation total 6 cases were worked out. Out of which 1 is snatching and 5 are of vehicle theft.

The cases solved with their arrest are as under: Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS State Property No. recovered 89. 180/02.09.18 356,379,34,411 IPC Maloya Chandigarh Mobile 90. 80/12.03.18 379,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh. Motor Cycle 91. 153/11.05.18 379, 411 IPC 17 Chandigarh Activa 92. 238/05.06.18 379, 411 IPC 39 Chandigarh Motor Cycle 93. 252/30.05.18 379, 411 IPC MM Chandigarh Motor Cycle 94. 90/6.9.18 379 IPC PS-Balongi Mohali Car

Modus operandi On 19.08.18 accused Manpreet Singh approached the complainant for the purchase of his Toyata Liva Car in the area of PS-Balongi and on the pretext of test drive he eloped with the car and later the same car was used by him and his associates for the snatching the phone from the area of PS-Maloya dated 2.9.2018. The stolen car used in the crime has also been recovered.

130. 25.09.2018 Gang of Snatchers and Auto lifter arrested by Crime Branch In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of DSP Pawan Kumar team headed by Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to arrest three persons who are involved in recent snatchings and auto lifting from Chandigarh. On 22.09.18, a secret information was received that the one person Vicky who is involved in several cases of recent snatchings and vehicle lifting is presently roaming in the area of Police Station 34, Chandigarh. On the basis of secret information the naka was laid and Vikcy was apprehended. Further on the interrogation of accused Vicky two more Happyjit Singh and Ramesh Kumar were also arrested. On further interrogation and investigation total 10 cases were worked out. Out of which 7 is snatching and 3 are of vehicle theft. The cases solved with their arrest are as under: Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS State Property No. recovered 95. 317/16.9.18 356,379,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh Mobile 96. 371/14.9.18 356,379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh. Mobile 97. 373/16.9.18 356,379, 411 IPC 39 Chandigarh Mobile 98. 325/17.9.17 356,379, 411 IPC 36 Chandigarh Mobile 99. 298/17.9.18 356,379,411 IPC 26 Chandigarh Mobile 100. 380/19.9.18 356,379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh Mobile 101. 374/16.9.18 356,379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh Mobile 102. 410/22.9.17 379, 411 IPC 39 Chandigarh Motor Cycle 103. 274/12.9.18 379,411 IPC 19 Chandigarh Motor Cycle 104. 78/4.3.16 379,411 IPC 31 Chandigarh Motor Cycle

Modus operandi Vicky, Happyjit and Ramesh all are residents of Ludhiana and Happyjit is working as Sweeper in Hotel Blue Diamond, burial, Chandigarh. Vicky and Ramesh are his friends all of them are in habit of consuming drugs. All three of them decided to commit snatchings and vehicle lifting from Chandigarh, on this Vicky arranged one Activa which belong to his Aunt (Bua) who lives in sector 38 west Chandigarh and they started committing snatchings on this activa. Most of these snatching were done by Vicky alone on this activa and he used to give these snatched mobile to Ramesh for further selling it in the market. Other Crimes Accused Vicky also confessed during the interrogation that he has also snatched few mobiles from Ludhiana. 131. 25.09.2018 Luxury car recovered with arrest by Crime Branch A case FIR No. 151 dated 30.7.2018 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-49, Chandigarh was registered on the complaint in which complainant reported that on 28.7.2018 he went to RCS Society Sec.49A, Chandigarh in his Fortuner No. CH01AN-9595 to attend his family party. Where he lost the key of vehicle and later on he came back with his brother. But on the next day he found his vehicle has been stolen. During the investigation one person Milan Sharma S/o Sh. Ravi Dutt Sharma R/o # 817, Sec.49, Chandigarh was arrested by crime branch and stolen vehicle has been recovered. He further disclosed that he found the keys of vehicle, then he has stolen the fortuner and further parked it in free parking area Sec.16, Panchkula and try to sell it off, but he could not manage to get any customer. 132. 28.09.2018 Gang of Snatchers arrested by Crime Branch Cracking the whip on the snatchers the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested 4 persons. On 26.9.2018 a secret information was received that three person who have snatched a purse from a lady near beat box khuda lahora is roaming in the area of PS-Sarangpur. On the basis of this information three person namely Sahil, Santosh and one juvenile were arrested / apprehended in case FIR No. 250 dated 21.09.18 u/s 379,356,411 IPC, Police Station-Sarangpur, Chandigarh and from them snatched purse and documents were recovered. Similarly on 27.9.2018 on the basis of secret information Hardit Singh and Varinder Singh were arrested in case FIR No. 198 dated 25.09.2018 u/s 356,379,34,411 IPC, Police Station-Maloya, Chandigarh who have snatched the lady purse containing two mobile phones and cash. The snatched mobile phones were recovered from their possession.

133. 05.11. 2018 Inter-state Gang of Vehicle Lifters arrested by Crime Branch In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of DSP Pawan Kumar team headed by Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to arrest a gang of vehicle lifters comprising of seven persons who are involved in auto lifting from Chandigarh & Delhi. Profile of accused.

1. Harpreet Singh @ Smarty S/o Sh. Dhanwant Singh R/o Skynet Tower Zirakpur, Distt. Mohali and # 429/7, Jatan Wala Chountra, Patiala,PB age 27 years. 2. Inderjit Singh @ Ricky S/o Sh. Avtar Singh R/o Vill. Chotta Surtapur, Distt. Ropar, PB age 27 years. 3. Virender Pal Singh S/o Sh. Gurpal Singh R/o Gali No. 2 Jyoti Nagar near Kheda Karnal, HR age 30 years. 4. Javed Akhtar S/o Farukh Ahmad R/o 405, Mohalla Purva, Fariyad Ali, Meerut, UP age 48 years. 5. Dilawar S/o Sh. Jagdish R/o # 1/5346, Balbir Nagar Extention, Sadra, Delhi-32 Delhi age 59 years. 6. Abdul Aziz S/o Sh. Abdul Razaq R/o # 240, Mohalla Jalikot, Near Koti Attanash, PS- Delhi Gate, Meerut, UP age 59 years. 7. Mohd. Asif S/o Mehrazjudeen R/o 57, Sangam Vihar Vazirabad, Delhi age 40 years.

On 18.10.18 accused Harpreet Singh @ Smarty and Inderjit Singh @ Ricky who are involved in cases of vehicle lifting were arrested from Distt. Court Sec-43, Chandigarh. Further on the interrogation of accused Harpreet Singh @ Smarty and Inderjit Singh @ Ricky, five more accused namely Virender Pal Singh, Javed Akhtar, Dilawar, Abdul Aziz and Mohd. Asif were also arrested. On further interrogation and investigation total 10 cases of vehicle lifting were worked out. The cases solved with their arrest are as under: Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS State Property No. recovered 1. 310/04.09.18 379,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh Two cars 2. 317/23.10.18 473,411 IPC 11 Chandigarh. Car 3. 322/30.10.18 473,411 IPC 11 Chandigarh Car 4. 209/30.10.18 473,411 IPC 03 Chandigarh Three car 5. 01/01.01.18 379,411 IPC 34 Chandigarh Car 6. 169/11.08.18 379,411 IPC 03 Chandigarh Activa 7. 349/16.8.18 379,411 IPC MM Chandigarh Activa 8. 278/05.06.18 379, 411 IPC MM Chandigarh Activa 9. 116/03.10.17 379,411 IPC 19 Chandigarh Activa 10. 251/21.08.18 379,411 IPC IA Chandigarh Motor Cycle

Modus operandi Accused Harpreet Singh @ Smarty Inderjit Singh @ Ricky, Virender Pal Singh, Javed Akhtar, Dilawar, Abdul Aziz and Mohd. Asif all are members of auto lifting gang and known to each other. All seven of them used to commit vehicle lifting from Chandigarh, Delhi , Punjab & Haryana and further sell these vehicles in UP to scrap dealers. They have admitted to have stolen almost 30 vehicles from Delhi, Punjab & Haryana out of which 14 have been recovered and the rest of the vehicle they have sold in Meerut UP and which were stolen from Delhi. Other Crimes Accused Harpreet Singh @ Smarty, Inderjit Singh @ Ricky and Dilawar have a tainted past. Harpreet Singh @ Smarty was earlier arrested by Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi Police and Inderjit Singh @ Ricky was arrested by Punjab Police and Dilawar was arrested earlier by Delhi Police. 134. 20.12.2018 Snatching and Auto lifting cases solved by Crime Branch In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of DSP Pawan Kumar team headed by Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to arrest the five persons who are involved in recent snatchings and auto lifting from Chandigarh.

Profile of accused

1. Dharambir @ Pittal S/o Sh. Surajpal R/o Vill. Naraini, PS- Bilsi, Distt. Badaun, UP.

2. Shish Pal S/o sh. Mohar Singh R/o Vill. Lohgarh, Tehsil Zirakpur, Distt. Mohali, PB.

3. Bharat S/o Sh. Suraj Pal R/o Vill. Lohgarh, Zirakpur, Distt. Mohali, PB permanent add. Vill. Naraini, Tehsil Bilsi, Distt. Badaun, UP.

On 16.12.18 secret information was received that the above said accused persons were involved in several cases of vehicle lifting presently. On the basis of secret information the naka was laid near Shastri Nagar Light point Manimajra and apprehended above said three accused were arrested. From them total 7 two wheelers were recovered out of these three, two of them namely Shish Pal and Dharamvir @ Pittal were PO in three cases of theft.

1. Ranjit Yadav S/o Ram Milan Yadav R/o 654, Bad Majra Colony, ph-6, Mohali, PB. 2. Dushyant Kumar @ Abhay S/o Lal Bahadur R/o Vill. Bisara Paschim, Tehsil Mussafirkhana Distt. Amethi, UP.

On 19.12.18 on the basis of secret information another two accused namely Ranjit Yadav and Dushyant Kumar @ Abhay were arrested from 42/43,52/53, Chowk and from them two snatched mobile phones one stolen bike and one more bike which they have stolen from Mohali were recovered. From all the five accused total 13 cases were worked out. Out of which 2 are snatching and 8 are of vehicle theft and 3 are PO arrested.

The cases solved with their arrest are as under: Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS State Recovery No. 105. 214/30.10.17 379411 IPC 03 Chandigarh M/Cycle 106. 24/16.01.18 379,411 IPC MM Chandigarh Activa 107. 195/19.07.17 379,411 IPC IA Chandigarh Aviator 108. 159/21.05.18 379,411 IPC 19 Chandigarh M/Cycle 109. 212/18.08.18 379,411 IPC SPR Chandigarh Activa 110. 133/31.03.18 379,411 IPC MM Chandigarh M/Cycle 111. 111/23.03.17 379,411 IPC 31 Chandigarh M/Cycle 112. 69/06.03.17 379,411 IPC 39 Chandigarh M/Cycle 113. 438/16.12.18 379,356,34 36 Chandigarh Mobile 114. 273/08.09.18 356,379,411 IPC IA Chandigarh Mobile 115. 80/17.03.11 380,457,411 IPC MM Chandigarh PO 116. 96/28.07.16 356,379,34,411 IPC 19 Chandigarh PO 117. 319/09.10.11 380,457,411 IPC MM Chandigarh PO

Modus Operandi Accused Dharamvir Singh @ Pittal and Shishpal used to steal bikes and then further used to park them in different parking lots till they find appropriate customers for these bikes and accused Ranjit Yadav and Dushyant Kumar @ Abhay they used to commit snatching in Chandigarh and Mohali and for this they have stolen one bike from Chandigarh, on which they were committing these snatching.

135. 26.12.2018 In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of DSP Pawan Kumar team headed by Inspector Amanjot arrested two persons who were involved in auto lifting from Chandigarh and P.O in the several cases of snatching/vehicle theft. Profile of accused. 4. Dev Kohli @ Honey S/o Jai Narain R/o Vill. Allaudinpur PS. Jhinjana Distt. Shamli, UP

5. Gulshan S/o Raj pal R/o Vill. Mastgarh PS. Jhinjana Distt. Shamli, UP

On 22.12.18 a secret information was received that the above said accused persons were involved in several cases of vehicle lifting presently and has been declared P.O in the several cases are roaming in the area of Sector 16 On the basis of secret information the naka was laid near Shanti Kunj, Sec.16 and apprehended above said two accused were arrested. From them total 8 cases were worked out. Out of which 4 cases of vehicle theft and Dev Kohli who has been declared P.O was arrested in the 4 cases of snatching

The cases solved with their arrest are as under: Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS State Recovery No. 118. 389/22.12.18 473,411 IPC 17 Chandigarh M/Cycle 119. 358/22.12.18 473,411 IPC 11 Chandigarh M/Cycle 120. 330/6.12.18 379,411 IPC 19 Chandigarh M/Cycle 121. 349/13.11.18 379,411 IPC 17 Chandigarh M/Cycle 122. 199/19.9.16 379,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh PO 123. 28/31.1.17 379,356 IPC 39 Chandigarh PO 124. 50/29.4.16 379,356,411 IPC 19 Chandigarh PO 125. 154/10.8.16 379,356,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh PO

136. 12.01.2019 10,000 Euros Cheating case solved by Crime Branch In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of DSP Pawan Kumar team headed by Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to arrest the person who is involved in the incident of cheating of 10,000 Euros from Sector-9, Chandigarh.

Profile of accused Snigdha Saurav Dash S/o Sh. Samarendra Dash R/o Vill. Barabatiya Distt. Kendra Pada (Odisha). Aged 30 years. Who is working as consultant with the channel and who was earlier research analyst with the same channel. He has done his B.Tech and M.Tech from NIT Nagpur and MBA from IMT Ghaziabad. On 8.1.2019 an information was received that the person who in involved in cheating of 10,000 Euro from Sector-9, Chandigarh is presently staying in the area of Connaught Place, Delhi. Acting swiftly upon this information a team was sent to Delhi, where accused Snigdha Saurav Dash was arrested from the York Hotel, Connaught Place, Delhi.

Modus Operandi: Snigdha Saurav Dash is an educated person, with the criminal intent and with the bent of mind to earn easy money by cheating innocent people. He used to search on internet about the money changers and then by procuring their telephone number from the internet he used to make them calls and asked them to bring certain amount of money at the given address and used to pretend that he is the owner of the place where he has called the money changer for changing India Rupees into foreign currency. He used to gain their confidence and make them sit at that place and take the foreign currency on the pretext of giving them the India currency, whereas the money changer kept on sitting and waiting for him to come back and in the mean time Snigdha Saurav Dash used to flee with cheated amount. On 24.12.2018 Snigdha Saurav Dash adopted the same modus operandi and called Manchanda Money Changer to SCO No. 156,157, Sec.9, Chandigarh and pretend them that this is his office and took 10,000 Euros from them and asked them to wait in the office and let him bring the Indian Currency. As the Money changers were waiting, he fled away with the 10,000 Euros. Regarding this case FIR No. 252 dated 24.12.2018 u/s 420 IPC PS-3, Chandigarh was registered. On 24.12.2018 after cheating the said amount Snigdha Saurav Dash he immediately went to Delhi and then from Delhi he entered Nepal by road in a bus and lost all the money in Grand Casino, Nepal and he came back to Delhi on 2.1.2019. He is habitual gambler and visited almost all the gambling hubs of the world i.e. Hong Kong, Singapore, Macaw, Nepal, Goa and Sikkim etc. Previous Record Snigdha Saurav Dash has a tainted past and previously arrested by Delhi Police in year 2016 for cheating money Changer of 8000 USD in which he has been arrested and presently on bail.

137. 01.03.2019 A special drive was carried out by crime branch Chandigarh against the drug menace in the city under the supervision of DSP Crime Sh. Sukhraj Katewa. During this drive in last seven days 6 cases of NDPS were registered. Detail is under:- Sr. Case Reference Accused Detail Recovered No. Quantity 1. Case FIR No. 40 Dated Lakhan Chopra 12 Grams 24.02.2019 U/S 21 s/o Mahender Heroin NDPS Act, PS-26, Pal r/o Chandigarh 3273,Sec-27D, Chandigarh age 22 years 2. Case FIR No. 38 Dated Suresh Kumar 30 Gram 25.02.2019 U/S 21 s/o Sewa Ram cocaine NDPS Act, PS-MJ, R/o Flat No. Chandigarh 51A, Metro Town, Peer Muchhalla, Zirakpur, Distt. Mohali PB age 31 years. Permanent add:- Railway Patri, Malikpur, Miran Sahib, Jammu, J&K 3. Case FIR No. 24 Dated Deepak S/o 30 Grams 25.02.2019 U/S 21 Krishan Kumar Heroin NDPS Act, PS-MM, R/o Gali No. 2, Chandigarh Bala Ji Colony, near Sector-18, Kaithal, Haryana age 25 years 4. Case FIR No. 45 Dated Manoj Singh 13.30 26.02.2019 U/S 21 S/o Sh. Rishipal Grams NDPS Act, PS-IT R/o Vill. Hatho, Heroin Park, Chandigarh distt. Jind (HR) age 20 years 5. Case FIR No. 76 Dated Amit Kumar S/o 10 Grams 26.02.2019 U/S 21 Rajkumar R/o Cocaine NDPS Act, PS-31, Flat No. 602, Chandigarh Tower No. 12, Bollywood Heights-1, Peer Muchhalla, Zirakpur, Distt. SAS Nagar, PB age-28 years Permanent Add- Ward No. 11, Colony Road, Mandi, Dabwali, distt. Sirsa Haryana 6. Case FIR No. 24 Dated Deepak Kumar 500 27.02.2019 U/S 18 @ Deepu S/o Grams NDPS Act, PS-19, Sh. Mahadev Opium Chandigarh. r/o Vill.Adampur, near stadium, Distt. Hissar, HR, age-19 years

A team of crime branch led by Insp. Amanjot Singh got major success when they apprehended one Anoop Ram S/o Sh. Lal Das R/o Vill. Godighat, PS-Banjar Distt. Kullu HP and from him a major drug haul was recovered. Profile of accused. Anoop Ram S/o Sh. Lal Das R/o Vill. Godighat, PS-Banjar Distt. Kullu Himachal Pradesh, age 32 year, Height 5‟ 9”, Married, Qualification 8th class fail, Profession Taxi Driver in Manali. Today as the city was on high alert the team of Crime Branch was on routine Naka duty near Mullanpur Barrier and was checking suspected vehicles, in the afternoon during this checking one Bolero Jeep bearing temporary number HP33-9257 (T) which was being driven by Anup Kumar came, on suspicion the driver of the vehicle was questioned who got nervous and try to run with vehicle but as the Naka was fully barricaded he did not get any chance to run away with vehicle so he got down from his Bolero Jeep and started running towards Mullanpur and was apprehended after 15-20 meters of chase, he was carrying one white colour bag with him and on checking the Charas was recovered in the bag and further on weighing it was found i.e. 4 kg 400 grams. On interrogation of the accused it has been come to notice that he is resident of Vill. Godighat, PS-Banjar Distt. Kullu and he has come here to deliver the stuff in Chandigarh near bus stand Sec.17, Chandigarh. In this regards FIR No. 28 dated 1.3.2019 u/s 20 NDPS Act PS-Saranpur, Chandigarh was registered. Modus Operandi Accused is a taxi driver by profession and who so ever in search for charas goes to Mandi (Himachal) and somehow come in contact with him, he further strike deal with them and provide stuff as per their demands wherever it is required.

138. 08.03.2019 Murder Case solved Chandigarh Police got a major success in a recent murder case of Police Station Sector 49, Chandigarh in which young boy Vishal Chillar, ex-student of DAV College, Sec.10, Chandigarh was killed by the rival party due to the student politics. The joint team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh and Police Station Sector 49 cracked this case and arrested 5 main accused involved in this crime.

Facts of the case: The case FIR No. 20 dated 6.3.2019 u/s 147,148,149,452,302,307,34 IPC and 25/27/54/59 Arms Act PS-49, Chandigarh was registered on the complaint of Sh. Pankaj S/o Sh. Brij Bhushan R/o # 2813/1, Sec.49, Chandigarh in which he stated that Sudeep along with his accomplice attacked on him and his friends Vishal Chillar, Aashish, Meghal and others when they were sleeping in their house. In this attacked Vishal Chillar was killed and others were got injured. The accused party fled away from the spot and injured was taken to Hospital where Vishal Chillar was declared brought dead in PGI.

Apprehension of accused. Today, afternoon, an information was received that the accused who are involved in the recent firing incident at Sector 49, Chandigarh are roaming in I20 Car No. HR20-AN-0846 and probably will pass from that area boarding Panchkula and Chandigarh. About that information SHO, Sector 49, Chandigarh and his police team was informed and was joined in the police party. On that information the naka was laid near wine shop on the border of Panchkula and Chandigarh, I.T, Park, Chandigarh for checking and during checking a car I20 bearing No. HR20-AN-0846 was seen coming from Panchkula side towards Chandigarh side and on seeing the car, it was signaled to stop whereas the driver of the car on seeing the police party stopped the car and try to reverse it but the car was rounded up by the police officials available on the naka and occupants were overpowered, during their interrogation they disclosed their name as:

Sequence of events revealed during the interrogation. Following this old revelry on 5.3.2019 Pankaj, Vishal and few of their friends went to New Chandigarh at the house of Sumit to beat him up and his friends, but this information was leaked by Aman Nehra @ Bachi to Sumit. On the basis of the given information Sumit alongwith his friends left the house, when the opposite party did not find them at their residence they vandalized their car No. HR48A-5500 which was parked outside their house at DLF Society, Mullanpur, New Chandigarh, this fact was also reported by Sumit at Police Station Mullanpur, Distt. Mohali. Pankaj and Vishal later came to know that the information of their attempt for attacking on Sumit and others was leaked by Aman Nehra and on this they confronted him and even beat him up for the same. With the vengeance in mind Aman Nehra booked cab from Sector 49 and reached at the residence of Sumit, New Chandigarh where he disclosed the entire planning of Pankaj and Vishal to the opposite party i.e. Sumit, Sudeep and others and even told them that now all of them are sleeping, the entry door of the house is open and if they go and attacked them now they can get a free access, on this Sudeep and Naveen picked up their weapon (pistols) and others i.e. Rahul Manda, Sumit, Sushil Bhola and Ramdeep took sward, Gandasa and sticks and attacked Vishal, Pankaj, Aashish and others at H.No. 2813/1, Sec.49, Chandigarh, where Sudeep fired at Vishal Chillar and Naveen followed him and also fired at Vishal whereas the other accompanying Sudeep and Naveen attacked the rest of the people sleeping in the flat. After this gruesome attacked all of them ran away in I20 car to Rishikesh and today they were apprehended while they were coming back to meet one of their friend to collect money.

139. 18.04.2019 Two persons and unearthing international drug racket involved in drug trafficking Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police got a major success in apprehending two persons and unearthing international drug racket involved in drug trafficking in India. Today a team of Crime Branch under the supervision of Insp. Amanjot Singh led by SI Satvinder Singh was patrolling in the area of Police Station 31, Chandigarh in regards to upcoming Lok Sabha Elections and while patrolling two persons were found present near Singh Sabha Gurudwara Sec.31, Chandigarh and they were carrying heavy bags, on the basis of suspicion both were stopped and on further checking their bags „CHARAS‟ of high quality was recovered and on weighing which was found to be 12 Kg. From the accused Kiran Kumar total 11 Kg of Charas was recovered and from Khusal Paudel total 1 Kg Charas was recovered. In this regards FIR No. 129 dated 18.4.2019 u/s 20 NDPS Act PS-31, Chandigarh was registered. Profile of accused. 1. Kiran Kumar DC S/o Shiba Lal Dangi R/o VPO. Bhur Distt. Jajarkot, Nepal. Aged 33 years.

2. Khusal Paudel S/o Sh. Khagu Ram R/o Paudel R/o VPO. Bhamake Distt. Dang, Nepal. Aged 35 years.

Modus Operandi Accused are resident of Nepal and visited India several times. During their previous visits they came in contact with few locals of Himachal who gave them the idea of bringing Charas from Nepal. Earlier Kiran has brought approximately 2.5 Kg of Charas in year 2018 and 5 Kg Charas in February 2019 and sold it in Himachal and after selling these two consignments successfully he got the idea of brining of huge quantity and asked his friend Khusal to company him to India with this contraband. They procured this high quality Charas from Nepal and were planning to sell it off in different parts of India i.e. Himachal, Goa and Chandigarh.

140. 19.04.2019 Snatching vehicle lifting cases solved In another breakthrough Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested the following two persons involved in snatching and vehicle lifting. 1. Arvind S/o Sh. Beer Singh R/o Room No. 8, Vill. Kambali, Ph-XI, Distt. Mohali, PB

2. Pinku S/o Sh. Guljari Lal R/o Vill. Kambali, Distt. Mohali, PB involved snatching On 5.3.2019 at about 8.10 pm they snatched one mobile phone make Vivo from one Arvind S/o Sh. Dharam Pal R/o # 3510/47C, Chandigarh near the Sampark Sec.47, Chandigarh while he was going to his house in this regard case was registered in Police Station Sec.31, Chandigarh.

After their arrest they were interrogated and they have confessed their involved in other crime of vehicle lifting and further two cases of vehicle theft were solved and the stolen vehicles were also recovered from them. With their arrest total 3 cases were worked out. Out of which 1 case of snatching and 2 cases of vehicle theft. The cases solved with their arrest are as under:

Sr. FIR /Date U/S PS State No. 126. 80/5.3.2019 379,356 IPC 31 Chandigarh 127. 387/31.10.18 379,411 IPC 36 Chandigarh 128. 9/10.1.2019 379,411 IPC 17 Chandigarh.

141. 24.04.2019 Vehicle Theft cases solved by Crime Branch In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh is able to arrest the following two persons in four different cases who are involved in Fortuner lifting and other vehicle thefts from Chandigarh.

1. Sunil Kumar @ Surender S/o Ram sewak R/o # 566, Mahdev Colony, Surajpur, Distt. Panchkula, HR age-30 years

2. Mohinder Kumar S/o Kishori Lal R/o # 2698, Sec-44, Chandigarh age 49 years present address- # 1077, Rajiv Colony Sec-17, PKL, HR. 3. Rajesh Kumar S/o Sh. Bhagwan Deen R/o # 1805, Vikas Nagar, Mouli Jagran Chandigarh aged 47 Years. 4. (Juvenile)

With the arrest of Sunil Kumar, Mohinder, Rajesh Kumar and one juvenile four cases of solved out of which in one case fortuner involved in case FIR No. 379 dated 19.10.2016 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-34, Chandigarh was recovered, and three two wheelers were recovered in different cases i.e. FIR No. 44 dated 8.2.2019 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-34, Chandigarh of Activa theft, FIR No. 464 dated 1.11.2017 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-39 of M/Cycle theft and FIR No. 324 dated 4.10.2018 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-17, Chandigarh of M/Cycle Theft.

Mohinder Singh was arrested as a receiver of stolen property who is scrap dealer in Mouli Jagran, Chandigarh and Rajesh Kumar was also arrested as a receiver of stolen property whereas he works as Mechanic at Mouli Jagran, Chandigarh. Sunil Kumar was also Proclaim offender in two cases, he was arrested in the following cases: 1) Case FIR No. 379 dated 28.12.14 u/s 380,457,411,413 IPC, PS-17, Chandigarh. 2) Case FIR No. 411 dated 02.10.14 u/s 379,411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh.

142. 12.05.2019 Drug peddler arrested 280n kg Ganja and 1 pistol recovered Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police got a major success in apprehending one person from whom the biggest drug haul in the history of Chandigarh Police was recovered. Today, a team of Crime Branch under the supervision of DSP Sukhraj Katewa led by Insp. Amanjot Singh. SI Satvinder Singh and other police official of Crime Branch were patrolling in the area of Police Station I.T Park, Chandigarh in regard to upcoming Lok Sabha Elections and while patrolling a secret information was received that a person namely Mintu who is resident of Bapu Dham, Sec.26, Chandigarh has criminal past and presently he is possessing illegal weapon and may create law and order problem during the elections. On the basis of this information Mintu who was coming from Kishangarh chowk to Shastri Nagar Light Point, Chandigarh in Silver Colour Innova Crysta No. HR99ACK (T) 4666 was apprehended and from his possession one Pistol of .32 bore along with 5 live cartridges were recovered and during the search of his Innova Crysta total 14 bags were found and on checking of these bags a huge quantity of Ganja was recovered and on weighing which was total 280 kg. In this regards FIR No. 101 dated 12.5.2019 u/s 20 NDPS Act and 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-IT Park, Chandigarh was registered. Profile of accused 3. Mintu S/o Sh. Ramesh Kumar R/o # 719/9, BDC, Chandigarh. Aged 37 years.

Earlier accused Mintu used to work as fruit vendor in Sabji Mandi, Sec.26, Chandigarh, but now he is selling drugs (Ganja) on very higher rate from the rate of procurement and further using illegally earned money in lending loans to the small vendor of Sabji Mandi, Sec.26, Chandigarh. Modus Operandi He has procured this Ganja from South on a cheaper rate in huge quantity and was planning to sell it in tri-city in bits and pieces on higher value. By doing this he makes profit of almost 2000 %. Previous history of the accused Mintu S/o Sh. Ramesh Kumar R/o # 719/9, BDC, Chandigarh has tented past has been arrested on various occasion by Chandigarh Police Cricket Gambling, Rioting, Cheating, illegally capturing of property. Accused was produced in the court of MS. Gitanjali Goel, JMIC, Duty Magistrate, Chandigarh and his police remand for 06 days was obtained.

143. 27.05.2019 Theft Case solved In another breakthrough Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Amanjot Singh arrested the following five persons (four ladies) involved in iron rod theft. 1. Asha W/o Ravi R/o 2864, DMC Sec-38, Chandigarh age-30 years 2. Asha W/o Omi R/o 2815, DMC Sec-38, Chandigarh age- 50 years 3. Popi W/o Minder R/o 2858, DMC Sec-38, Chandigarh age-42 years. 4. Laxmi W/o Naresh R/o 2859, DMC, Sec-38, Chandigarh age-38 years. 5. Subhash S/o Sh. Mangu Ram R/o 2650, DMC Sec-38, Chandigarh age-34 years.

On 26.5.2019 a secret information was received that above said persons who were involved in recently theft case of iron rods are roaming in the area of Sector 38 West. On this secret information Naka was laid down near light point sec.38 West and apprehended above said five persons in case FIR No. 140 dated 23.5.2019 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-39, Chandigarh. From them 33 iron rods approximately value of Rs.5 lac have been recovered.

On the basis of secret information another accused Mukesh S/o Sh. Lalu Ram R/o Vill. Guda Balatan PS. Ahoure Distt. Jaloure Rajasthan was also arrested in case FIR No. 101 dated 10.5.2019 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-34, Chandigarh and one stolen Scorpio car approximately value of Rs. 15 lac was recovered from him. Mukesh has tainted past as he has been arrested previously 6 times by the Maharastra, Bombay and Gujrat Police in the vehicle lifting cases.

144. 30.06.2019 Murder case solved by joint team of PS & Crime Branch On 30.06.2019, Chandigarh Police achieved a major success when police team of Police Station Sector-39 and Crime Branch, Chandigarh arrested accused Chetan Singh S/o Shri Nandan Singh R/o #1856, Sector-34-D, Chandigarh Age-18 ½ Yrs, Harpreet Singh @ Laddi S/o Shri Paramjit Singh R/o #866-D, Sector-43-A, Chd. Age-19 Yrs, Tilak DC S/o Shri Tara DC R/o #2041, Vill-Burail, Chd Age-21 Yrs & Rithwik Bhardwaj @ Billa S/o Shri Parvesh Bhardwaj R/o #66, Sector-55, Chd. Age-19 Yrs and a sensational case of murder has been traced/worked out.

Brief Facts of the case:

On 28.06.2019 at 12.01 PM a telephonic call received in PS that a quarreal took place near Lucky Sweets Shop, Sector-40, Chandigarh. On this, Police party and visited the spot where it comes to light that PCR Gypsy rushed the injured to PGI, Chandigarh for treatment where injured Amit Katoch declared dead by the Duty Doctor. Injured identified as Amit Katoch S/o Shri Onkar Singh Katoch R/o #6002, Sunny Enclave, Kharar (Mohali) Age- 27 Yrs and the alleged identified as Rajat Tiwari and his companions. From the preliminary interrogation, it reveals that the victim Amit Katoch and alleged Rajat Tiwari were residing in Sector-41, Chandigarh and having grudge between each other. Later on, both victim Amit Katoch alongwith parents and alleged Rajat Tiwari alongwith parents shifted to Sunny Enclave, Mohali. As there was old rivalry between them, they both were always keep check each other. On the date of alleged incident i.e. 28.06.2019, the Rajat Tiwari cordon the activities of victim and keep their location of Sunny Enclave and when victim Amit Katoch proceeded towards Chandigarh they Rajat Tiwari alongwith his companions chased him. When he reached at Sector-40, Chandigarh they all immediately attacked upon him with sharp edge knife, dandas resultantly declared dead at PGI. After committed the crime they all fled away from Chandigarh to different places yesterday evening. Accused Harpreet Singh @ Laddi went to Ludhiana and when he was returning back from there he has been arrested from turn Sector-43 B&C, nearby ISBT Sector-43, Chandigarh and other three accused Chetan Singh, Tilak DC & Rithwik Bhardwaj were arrested from near Green Belt, Sector-45 C & D Dividing Road, Chandigarh. All accused has been arrested on 30.06.2019. Accused are being produced before the Hon‟ble Court and 03 days police remand has been obtained as the kingpin of the accused is still at large. It‟s a necessity to interrogate the accused in depth so that the clue/whereabouts of main accused come to light. It‟s also emerged that the main kingpin accused Rajat Tiwari also found involved (most wanted) in two heinous crime cases i.e. case FIR No. 92 dated 16.04.2019 U/s 147, 148, 149, 323, 365, 506 IPC and U/s 25/54/59 Arms Act, PS-34, Chandigarh and second case FIR No. 214 dated 19.05.2018 U/s 332, 353, 186, 307 IPC PS-39,pending under trail in the court Chandigarh. Accused profile :

1. Chetan Singh S/o Shri Nandan Singh Address-R/o #1856, Sector-34-D, Chandigarh Age-18 ½ Yrs, Qual-10+2, Occupation-Student. 2. Harpreet Singh @ Laddi S/o Shri Paramjit Singh Address-R/o #866-D, Sector- 43-A, Chd. Age-19 Yrs, Qual-10th Pass, 3. Tilak DC S/o Shri Tara DC Address-R/o #2041, Vill-Burail, Chd Age-21 Yrs, Qual-10th fail, Occupation-Catering. 4. Rithwik Bhardwaj @ Billa S/o Shri Parvesh Bhardwaj Address-R/o #172/1, Near Shiv Mandir, Burail, Chd. Age-19 Yrs, Qual-8th pass, Occupation-Sale-purchase of old mobiles. Case Work Out :

 Case FIR No. 184 dated 28.06.2019 U/s 302, 34 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh.

Previous History:-

1. One case FIR No. 92 dated 16.04.2019 U/s 147, 148, 149, 323, 365, 506 IPC and U/s 25/54/59 Arms Act, PS-34, Chandigarh against Harpreet Singh @ Laddi S/o Shri Paramjit Singh.

145. 16.07.2019 Murder case solved Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police got a major success in a recent murder case of Police Station Mouli Jagran, Chandigarh in which young boy Satish was attacked by unknown boys by hitting the beer bottle in his head and later on he succumbed to injuries. The team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh headed by SI Satvinder under the supervision of DSP Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambastha cracked this case and arrested main accused involved in this crime. Facts of the case: The case FIR No. 127 dated 14.7.2019 u/s 302,34 IPC PS-Mouli Jagran, Chandigarh was registered on the complaint of Sh. Jatinder Kumar S/o Ram Milan R/o # 1145, Mouli Complex, Chandigarh in which he stated that his brother Satish has been attacked by two unknown boys with beer bottle on his head and got some injuries. Later on he was admitted to General Hospital Sec.6, Panchkula where he succumbed to injuries. Apprehension of accused. Today, afternoon, an information was received that the main accused Deepak, who is involved in the recent murder case at Mouli Jagran, Chandigarh is roaming in the area of Mouli Jagran and will try to run away from Chandigarh to other state by train. On that information, SI Satvinder Singh alongwith the police party laid the naka on railway station road towards Mouli Jagran to Railway Station, Chandigarh for checking and during checking a young boy came from the Mouli Jagran and on seeing the police party, he turn back and try to escape, on the identification of the informer but he was apprehended with the help of police party and he disclosed his name Deepak. In the mean time Investigating official of this case of Police Station Mouli Jagran alongwith the police reached on the spot and accused Deepak was handed over to him and was arrested in the present case respectively. Profile of the accused:

1. Deepak S/o Sh. Jawahar Lal R/o House No. 3174, Mouli Jagran Complex, Chandigarh, Age 19 Years. Reason for murder Accused Deepak alongwith his friend was present in the park near Masjid, Mouli Complex in the mean time deceased Satish alongwith his friend Sabed also came there. Deepak was in doubt that they came in their colony for „AASHIQUI‟ (Romance). Deepak asked them to go from there. On this they falls in an altercation. In the mean while Deepak alongwith his friend caught hold Satish and hit the beer bottle on his head and escaped from the spot.

146. 19.08.2019 Drug peddler arrested Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 18.08.2019, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Sher Singh, I/C Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in apprehending one drug peddler namely Raju by SI Ashok Kumar, Crime Branch with the help of his team officials on by chance recovery. While, this team was on patrolling near Toba, Village-Maolya, on road which goes from Chandigarh to Maloya Bus Stand, they apprehended one accused Raju, while he was coming on his foot towards Maloya Bus Stand side at his suspicious activities, during checking a huge crèche of drugs i.e., 1 kg 50 grams Charas recovered from a carry bag kept by accused Raju in his right hand, which comes under commercial quantity. With his arrest, a case FIR No. 137 dated 18.08.2019 u/s 20 NDPS Act, at PS-Maloya, Chandigarh has been registered against accused Raju s/o Late Sohan Lal r/o Gali No. 1, Jujhar Nagar, Mohali, Punjab, age-35 yrs. Previous criminal record:- After checking the criminal record of drug peddler Raju, case FIR No. 77 dated 25.02.2010 u/s 20 NDPS Act, PS-39, Chandigarh found registered against him in which 500 grams Charas was recovered from his possession. In this case, accused Raju has been convicted by the District Court, UT/Chandigarh with one month imprisonment and Rs. 5000/- fines in the year, 2014. 147. 19.08.2019 House Theft Case solved On 16.08.2019, a team of Crime Branch headed by SI Baldev Singh, Crime Branch has succeeded in arresting a house theft accused namely Saurav @ Monti s/o Vikcy r/o H.No. 1455/2, Sector-30/B, Chandigarh on a secret information at a naka laid by SI Baldev Singh with his team officials near PEC, Sector-11/12 Dividing Road, Chandigarh while accused Saurav was coming on his foot towards PGI side who was involved in the house theft incident of Rs. 6000/- and three mobile phones from H.No. 31/B, Sector-30, Chandigarh and in the matter case FIR No. 157 dated 03.07.2019 u/s 380, 411 IPC, PS- Industrial Area, Chandigarh was registered against him in Police Station-Industrial Area, UT/Chandigarh. With his arrest, 03 mobile phones theft in this case have been recovered from the instance of accused Saurav, one make MI Black colour at spot i.e., naka and two mobile phones make MI silver & Samsung J2 Golden Colour, respectively from his room in Saria Rohila, Delhi at the discloser of accused during police remand.

Previous criminal record:- After checking the criminal record of accused Saurav @ Monti Raju, he found involved in a robbery of gold chain in case FIR No. 122 dated 01.05.2014 u/s 392, 34, 397 IPC, Chandigarh registered against him in PS-31, Chandigarh, in which he has been convicted 04 years rigorous imprisonment by the Hon‟ble District Court, Sector-43, Chandigarh. 148. 26.08.2019 DRUG PEDDLER ARRESTED Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 24.08.2019, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Sher Singh, I/C Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in apprehending one drug peddler namely Ravi Kumar @ Ravi by SI Ashok Kumar, Crime Branch with the help of his team officials on by chance recovery. While, this team was on patrolling in the area of Police Station, Sector-34, Chandigarh with regards to prevention and control of crime and when, just was present near road dividing Sector-45 C&D green belt area, one person came there, towards Gaushala, Sector-45/D side on foot and on seeing police party returned, immediately, as such, on the basis of suspicion, he was stopped by SI Ashok Kumar and his team and his checking was made. In the meantime, he made tried to throw some material which, he had held in his right pocket of his pant, but same was held by police party. On further checking from polythene envelope, Heroin was recovered from his possession and on weighting, it was found 40 gms. On asking, he disclosed his name as Ravi Kumar @ Ravi and could not produce any type of permit/license for holding the drugs in his possession. Consequent, case FIR No. 216 dated 24.08.25019 u/s 21 NDPS Act, PS-34, Chandigarh has been registered against the accused Ravi Kumar @ Ravi s/o Surinder Pal r/o H.No. 325, Village-Burail, UT/Chandigarh, age-36 yrs. Previous criminal record:- After checking the criminal record of drug peddler Ravi Kumar, 09 criminal cases under Misc Theft, burglary, NDPS Act and Motor Vehicle Theft found registered against him. 149. 29.08.2019 NIGERIAN NATIVE ARRESTED FOR DRUG PEDDLING Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 28.08.2019, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Sher Singh, I/C Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in apprehending one Nigerian native drug peddler namely Christropher Ikechukwu by SI Ashok Kumar, Crime Branch with the help of his team officials on by chance recovery. While, this team was on patrolling in the area of Police Station, Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh with regards to prevention and control of crime and when was present at Kacha Rasta, Near Park, situated near Airport Light Point in Raipur Khurd, Chandigarh, just at that time, one person came there, towards Airport Light Point side on foot and on seeing police party returned, immediately, as such, on the basis of suspicion, he was stopped by SI Ashok Kumar and his team and his checking was made. In the meantime, he made tried to throw some material which, he had held in his right pocket of his pant, but same was held by police party. On further checking from polythene envelope, Ephedrine & Pseudoephedrine drugs, which is called Ice in foreign market language recovered from his possession and on weighting, it was found 102 gms. On asking, he disclosed his name as Christrochen Ikechukwa and could not produce any type of permit/license for holding the drugs in his possession. Consequent, case FIR No. 155 dated 28.08.2019 u/s 25-A NDPS Act, PS-Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh has been registered against the accused Christropher Ikechukwu s/o Apch, Gali No. 9 near Rama Park, Dwarka Mor, New Delhi, Nigerian Native, age-40 yrs. 150. 10.09.2019 Snatching cases solved In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Sher Singh, I/C Crime Branch and the close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in arresting three snatchers who were involved in the incident of snatching of mobile phone Opp-A5 in case FIR No.243 dated 07.09.2019 u/s 379, 356, 34 IPC, PS-IA, Chandigarh. The details of accused persons are as under:- 1. Aman Negi s/o Uday Singh r/o H.No. 454, Village-Nada, District-Mohali, Punjab, age-19 yrs. 2. Two juveniles.

The facts of the case as:- On 08.09.2019, secret information was received that the above said persons who were involved in a recently snatching case which was took place at City Emporium Main Gate, Industrial Area, Phase-1, Chandigarh are roaming freely near ISBT, Sector-17, Chandigarh on an Appache motocycle. On this secret information, SI Gurjiwan Singh, Crime Branch alongwith the officials of Crime Branch laid a naka opposite Gurdiyal Singh Petrol Pump, Sector-17, Chandigarh and apprehended above said three persons, while they were coming from Cricket Stadium Chowk towards ISBT, Sector-17, Chandigarh by using motorcycle having registration No. PB65-AU-2543, make Appache. During the search of accused, the snatched mobile phone make Oppo-A5 regarding that case FIR No.243 dated 07.09.2019 u/s 379, 356, 34 IPC, Chandigarh stands registered in PS-IA, Chandigarh recovered from the possession of juvenile accused. In the meantime, complainant, Sh. Deepak Kumar s/o Mangat Ram R/o H.No. 12, Village-Burail, Sector-45, Chandigarh reached at the naka and identified all the accused persons involved in the incident as well his recovered mobile phone.

On 08.09.2019, two juveniles accused produced before Juvenile Justice Court and sent to Juvenile Home and on 09.09.2019, accused Aman Negi produced before Hon‟ble District Court and sent to judicial Custody.

151. 11.09.2019 Snatching cases solved In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Sher Singh, I/C Crime Branch and the close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in arresting two snatchers, out of them one is juvenile who were involved in the incident of snatching of mobile phone Opp-A5, Red Colour in case FIR No.183 dated 10.09.2019 u/s 379, 356, 34, 411 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh. The details of accused persons are as under:- 1. Vishal s/o Ravinder Singh r/o H.No. 30 near Toba, Village-Dadu Majra, Chandigarh, age-20 yrs. 2. One juvenile.

The facts of the case as:- On 10.09.2019, secret information was received that the above said persons who were involved in a recently snatching case which was took place at Sector 36/37 dividing road, towards, Sector-36, Chandigarh are roaming freely near Sector-23/24, Chandigarh on Splender motor which was used in snatching incident. On this secret information, ASI Ashok Kumar, Crime Branch alongwith the officials of Crime Branch laid a naka near Light Point, Sector-23/34, Chandigarh and apprehended above said two persons, while they were coming from Batra Chowk side, towards Light Point, Sector-24, Chandigarh by using motorcycle having registration No. CH01-BM-2259, make Splender. During the search of accused, the snatched mobile phone make Oppo-A5, red colour, regarding that case FIR No.183 dated 10.09.2019 u/s 379, 356, 34, 411 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh stands registered in PS-36, Chandigarh recovered from the possession of juvenile accused. In the meantime, complainant, Ms. Silpa, reached at the naka and identified the accused persons involved in the incident as well her recovered mobile phone. On 10.09.2019, juvenile accused produced before Juvenile Justice Court and sent to Juvenile Home and today, accused Vishal produced before Hon‟ble District Court and sent to judicial Custody.

152. 12.09.2019 Burglary Cases Solved In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Sher Singh, I/C Crime Branch and the close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in arresting one notorious burglar namely Rajbir having past criminal record, who was involved in the incident of burglary of 06 mobile phones in case FIR No.299 dated 07.09.2019 u/s 380, 457, 411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh. The detail of accused person is as under:- Profile of accused.

Rajbir s/o Sukhpal r/o H.No. 150, Village-Burail, UT/Chandigarh, 2nd address, Village-Sudanpur, PS-Amla, Tehsil & District-Baans Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, age-30 yrs.

The facts of the case as:- Today i.e., 12.09.2019, secret information was received that the above said person who was involved in a recently took place burglary case at SCO No. 60, 1st floor, Sector-40/C, Chandigarh is roaming freely near dividing road Sector-11/12, Chandigarh. On this secret information, ASI Manoj Kumar, Crime Branch alongwith the officials of Crime Branch laid a naka near Light Point, near Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Chandigarh and apprehended above said person, while he was going towards Nayagaon for the purpose of dispose of/selling these burglared mobile phones. During the search of accused, out of 06 mobile phones, 05 recovered from his possession and the make of same are as:- 02 Samsung, 01 Redmi, 01 JIO and 01 Jivi burgled in case FIR No.299 dated 7.09.2019 u/s 380,457, 411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh. The complainant, Anurag Wasan, the owner of the shop from where, the accused has burglared these mobile phones has identified his mobile phones.

Modus Operandi Accused Rajbir Singh used to break the locks of the shop in the area of Sector-44, Chandigarh for stealing the items, so that he can fulfil his daily needs, as he has no other source of income. Past history of the accused:- Accused Rajbir has tainted past and has been previously arrested in three burglary cases, out of these cases, he has been convicted in two cases and one is still under trail in District Court, UT/Chandigarh and presently he is on bail. The detail of previously cases is as under:-  FIR No.268 dated 30.07.2017 u/s 454, 380, 411 IPC PS-34, Chandigarh (convicted).  FIR No.269 dated 30.07.2017 u/s 454, 380, 411 IPC PS-34, Chandigarh (Under trail)

 FIR No.270 dated 30.07.2017 u/s 454, 380, 411 IPC, PS-34, Chandigarh (Convicted).

153. 17.09.2019 Murder case solved accused arrested “Narwana Gang War” has been busted by the Crime Branch, Chandigarh. Narwana Gang War started in Narwana and continued and specified in Chandigarh resulting in the brutal murder of Tejinder Singh at Sector-17, Chandigarh. A team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police led by SI Satwinder Singh under the supervision of Inspector Sher Singh, I/C Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime got a major success in recent brutal murder case of Police Station, Sector-17, Chandigarh in which a young boy namely Tejinder Singh was killed and Sandeep was grievously injured by gangsters of Boxer Gang in parking, District Court, Sector-17, Chandigarh, due to old enmity. The team succeeded in arresting three accused persons with main gangster Vikas @ Boxer in this case. The detail of same are as:-

1. Vikas @ Boxer

2. Gurmert Singh @ Dhakalia

3. Amit @ Amit Growar Brief fact of the case are as under:- This case was registered on the statement of Sh. Rohit Kumar s/o Sh. Surta Ram r/o H.No.76, New Sunny Enclave, Sector-124, Mohali, Punjab. He stated that he is an Editor of Insaaf Express and The Mid land News. On 04.09.2019, he came to Sector-17, Chandigarh at about 3.00 PM, when he reached near parking District Court, Sector-17, Chandigarh by his car No.PB65-AP-7678. He heard sound of gun shots and he de-boarded from his car and saw that 3/4 boys coming towards him. He tried to catch one of them but the said boy take him on gun point and they all fled away from there in an auto rickshaw towards Bus Stand Chowk, Sector-17. He has also tried to follow them by his car but in the meantime, some unknown person told him to take the injured boy to hospital, when he reached near injured boy, PCR vehicle came there and shifted the injured to hospital. Meanwhile, other police officers also reached there and he came to know that one more boy also got injured during gun shots. He later came to know that the name of deceased is Tejinder Singh and the name of injured boy is Sandeep who is undergoing treatment in Trauma Centre, PGI, Chandigarh. In the matter, a case FIR No. 272 dated 04.09.2019 u/s 307, 304, 34 added 302 IPC & 27 of Arms Act, 1959, was registered in Police Station, Sector-17, Chandigarh.

Apprehension of accused:- In this matter, senior officers of Crime Branch constituted a team of SI Satvinder Singh under the supervision of Inspector Sher Singh for cracking the case and arresting the fled gangsters as soon as possible. SI Satvinder Singh was informed on initial information, multiple raids were carried out in Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi by the team . Some vital information about movement of accused persons was generated through these raids and it came to the notice of the Crime Branch team that Vikas Boxer is roaming with his accomplices Gurmeet Dhakal and Amit Grover in the near by areas of Panchkula and Chandigarh. They shall come in Mani Majra area for meeting some friends and for collecting money, if a naka is laid, near Shivalik Garden, Mani Majra, Chandigarh, they can be apprehended. On this secret information, a trap was laid by SI Satwinder Singh, Crime Branch alongwith his team‟s officials and above said accused persons nabbed near Shivalik Garden, Mani Majra, Chandigarh and later-on arrested in the case FIR No. 272 dated 04.09.2019 u/s 307, 304, 34 added 302 IPC & 27 of Arms Act, 1959, PS-17, Chandigarh.

During the apprehension, a .32 Bore Pistol also got recovered from the possession of accused Vikas Boxer which was used in the murder of deceased Tejinder Singh. Further, interrogation is on.

Profile of accused persons:- 1. Vikas @ Boxer s/o Sh. Manjit Singh r/o Mohalla Badsi Patti (Mor Patti), Ward No. 3, Narwana, PS-City Narwana, District-Jind, Haryana, age-20 yrs is a college dropout and also previously involved in criminal activities and also made a gang by name of Boxer especially in the area of Narwana, Jind, Haryana. The detail of criminal cases stands registered against him is as:-

1. Case FIR No.199 dated 14.08.2019 u/s 302, 379, 120-B IPC & 25-54-59 Arms Act, PS- Sadar Narwana, District-Jind, Haryana (No arrest).

2. Case FIR No.88 dated 07.04.2017 u/s 307, 34 IPC, PS-City Narwana, District-Jind, Haryana (arrested and case is under trial).

3. Case FIR No.243 dated 11.09.2017 u/s 25-54-59 Arms Act, PS-City Narwana, Jind, Haryana (arrested and case is under trial).

HE IS WANTED IN A MURDER CASE BY HARYANA POLICE.

Profile of accused persons:- 2. Gurmert Singh @ Dhakalia s/o Randhir r/o Village-Dhakal, PS-Sadar Narwana, District-Jind, Haryana, age-19 yrs is a college dropout from B.Com 2nd year and is an active member of Boxer Gang. The detail of criminal cases stands registered against him is as:-

1. Case FIR No.117 dated 31.05.2019 u/s 147, 149, 323, 341, 506 IPC, PS-Sadar Narwana, District-Jind, Haryana (arrest and under trial).

2. Case FIR No.114 dated 08.08.2019 u/s 147, 149, 324, 307, 506 IPC, PS-Gadi, District-Jind, Haryana (no arrest).

HE IS WANTED IN AN ATTEMPT FOR MURDER & RIOTING CASE BY HARYANA POLICE.

Profile of accused persons:- 3. Amit @ Amit Growar s/o Ramniwas r/o Gali No.4, Bhagat Singh Colony Canal Road, near SD School, Narwana, PS-City Narwana, District-Jind, Haryana, age-18 ½ yrs is also an active member of Boxer Gang and he circulated the videos of this gang in order to take fame. The detail of criminal cases stands registered against him is as:- 1. Case FIR No.117 dated 31.05.2019 u/s 147, 149, 323, 341, 506 IPC, PS-Sadar Narwana, District-Jind, Haryana (arrest and under trial).

HE IS ON BAIL IN A ROITING CASE.

Reason of enmity:

Complainant party as well as accused party both are involved in student politics and involved in verbal spat many times, which dragged them at the stage of killing each other. In the month of April, 2019, Mohit Mor, the brother of accused Vikas Boxer was brutally murdered by Dumerkha Group, which is associated with deceased Tejinder Singh who was one of the leaders of this group. After the death of his brother Mohit Mor, Vikas Boxer and his gang members took an oath for revenge and following this rivalry, two boys were also murdered in Narwana by Boxer gang on 14th August, 2019 and leading this, Vikas Boxer and his gang members meticulously planned and executed the murder of Tejinder Singh @ Malli for fulfil their revenge.

Sequence of events revealed during the interrogation.

From their sources, the Boxer gang, came to know that Tejinder Singh @ Malli was living in Chandigarh whom they consider one of the accused of murder of Mohit Mor. For this, one of their friend Upkar collected information about the deceased and surveillanced him. On 04.09.2019, as the deceased was going to meet someone, the accused party intercepted him killed him and escaped from the spot.

154. 24.09.2019 Battery theft cases solved Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Sher Singh arrested one Israr Khan S/o Ismail Khan r/o VPO Bhavipur, PS Bisoli, Distt. Badaun and solved the two cases of batteries theft. From the reliable sources it come to known that the person who had stolen the batteries of cars which were parked in the residence area of Sector 30 and Sector 24, Chandigarh has been arrested by the Himachal Police and presently is in Solan Jail. Acting on this information his production warrant was obtained on 20.9.2019 and arrested in the case FIR No. 351 dated 13.12.2018 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-Ind. Area, Chandigarh accordingly. His five days police remand was obtained and during interrogation he disclosed that after stolen the batteries from the residence area of Sec.30 and Sec.24 he went to Muradabad, UP, where he sold all the batteries to scrap dealer. A Police party under the supervision of SI Ashok Kumar went to Muradabad and recovered total 19 batteries of cars approximately value of Rs. 1,90,000/-. With his arrest two cases of batteries theft are solved.

Detail of cases: 1. FIR No. 351 dated 13.12.2018 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-Ind. Area, Chandigarh. 2. FIR No. 362 dated 28.12.18 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-11, Chandigarh.

155. 27.09.2019 Drug peddler arrested Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police, under the supervision of Inspector Sher Singh, I/C Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, got a major success in apprehending one drug peddler by unearthing drug racket involved in the drug trafficking in tri-city.

FACTS OF THE CASE:-

On 26.9.2019, a team of Crime Branch headed by SI Gurjiwan Singh was on patrolling in the area of Manimajra, Chandigarh in order to prevent and control crime. While, they were going to Kishangarh and reached near Railway Fatak No.60-70, in the mean time, one boy came out from bushes grown on the roadside and on seeing the police party he turned back, on suspicion he was apprehended with the help of police officials and his checking was made, in the mean time, he picked some material involved in poly pouch from his right pocket of his pant and try it threw but the same was hold by the police party. On further checking of poly pouch “HEROIN” was recovered and on weighing it was found 10 grams. Accused Charanjit Singh @ Sahil s/o Late Chandar Bhan r/o Mohalla Kayan Ward No.38, Gali No.2, Distt. Nawa Sahar was arrested and Case FIR No.156 dated 26.09.2019 u/s 21 NDPS Act, PS-Manimajra, Chandigarh was registered against him. The investigation of this case is in progress and the accused sent to judicial custody.

156. 27.09.2019 Bicycle theft cases solved

On the basis of secret information, another accused Ali Sheikh s/o Mohd. Manif r/o Village Behla Bidpur, Ward No.3, PS- Lal Mania Distt. Madhubani, Bihar was also arrested in case FIR No. 245 dated 26.9.2019 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-34, Chandigarh by the a team of Crime Branch led by ASI Hira Singh near Gaushala, slip road, Sector-45/C, Chandigarh, while he was coming from Sector-45/C-D turn towards Gaushala by using stolen bicycle which was stolen in the above mentioned case and with his arrest, three Ranger Bicycles approximately value of Rs.35,000/-were recovered (01 stolen and 02 U/S 102 CrPC).

157. 03.10.2019 Co-accused arrested in murder case and Arms recovered Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police got a major success in arresting accused Dharminder Singh s/o Vinod Singh r/o Near Nirankari Bhawan, Infront of Prince Super Mkt, Adarsh Nagar, Nayagoan, SAS Nagar, Punjab alongwith the illegal Country Made Pistol (Desi Katta) weapon & and 03 live cartridges in his possession.

On 02.10.2019, on the basis of secret information, a naka was laid near Khuda Lahora Bridge by the team of Crime Branch headed by Sub Inspector Gurjiwan Singh on the direction of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh, I/C Crime Branch from where one person namely Dharminder Singh was arrested with illegal weapon, while he was coming on foot from Naya Gaon, Punjab side and going towards PGI through slip road, in the meantime, informer get to make signal towards that person. After getting the confirmation signal from informer, the team officials moved towards the suspected person, seeing the police party coming towards him, the person tried to move back with fast steps, at this team officials apprehended that person who disclosed his name as Dharminder Singh s/o Vinod Kumar r/o Near Nirankari Bhawan, Infront of Prince Super Market, Adarsh Nagar, Nayagoan, SAS Nagar, Punjab and a search was made. During the search, an illegal country made pistol and 03 live cartridges got recovered from the right waist under his clothes. The accused could not produce any license and permit for possessing the same in his custody. Consequently, a case FIR No.200 dated 02.10.2019 u/s 25-54-59 Arms Act, PS-11, Chandigarh has been registered against accused Dharminder Singh. During the further investigation, 07 more cartridges recovered on the disclosure of Dharminder Singh. Today, i.e., 03.10.2019, accused Dharminder Singh has produced before District Court, Sector-43, Chandigarh and got obtained 04 days police remand in order to recover more weapons hide by the accused.

During police remand, accused disclosed that he also involved in the Sonu Shah murder case, which was committed by the gangsters on the direction of gangster Lawerance Bisoni (who is presently lodged in Jodhpur Jail, Rajasthan). He has provided the accommodation to the assailants at King Palace Hotel, Sector-80, Mohali, Punjab, presently running by one of his friends namely Chandan and also submit his own identity on the behalf of assailants in order to hide the identity of murderers in that hotel. He also disclosed that raccie was conducted by assailant with his help and by this way, they succeeded in committing ill motive of gruesome murder of Rajbir Singh @ Sonu Shah and injured 02 persons namely Romi and Joginder on 28.9.2019 in the office of deceased Rajbir Singh @ Sonu Shah in Burial, Chandigarh. In this regard, a case FIR No. 247 dated 28.09.2019 u/s 307, 302,120-B IPC & 25-27-54-59 Arms Act, PS-34, Chandigarh has been registered. From the arrest of accused Dharminder Singh, Crime Branch has got a major success to crack down the murder case of Sonu Shah. Further, investigation of this case is carried out.

Previous record:-

After going through the criminal record of accused Dharminder Singh, total 05 criminal cases are found registered against him under murder, rioting, hurt & misc IPC heads in the police stations, Sec-34 & Sector-36, respectively. The detail of same is under:- Sr. FIR Date Under Section PS Category No. No. 1. 45 27.01.2011 323, 506, 34 IPC, PS-34 Misc 2. 111 25.02.2013 147,148, 149, 323, 379, 302 IPC PS-34 Murder 3. 303 30.08.2018 147, 148, 149, 323, 324, 326, 506 PS-34 Hurt IPC 4. 115 30.04.2011 147, 148, 149, 323, 506 IPC PS-36 Rioting 5. 101 31.03.2015 147, 148, 149, 323, 506 IPC PS-36 Rioting

158. 08.11.2019 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police got a major success in apprehending two Nigerian and unearthing drug racket involved in drug trafficking in India. On 7.11.2019, the teams of Crime Branch on the direction of Sh. Sukhraj Katewa, DSP/Crime under the close supervision of Insp. Ranjit Singh headed by SI Ashok Kumar was on patrolling in the area of Police Station 17, Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime. At about 4.30 PM while they were near fire brigade Office Turn, near bus stand Sec.17, Chandigarh one person on seeing police party turn back, as such, on the basis of suspicion as he was stopped as seems to be foreigner and residing illegally in Chandigarh. His checking was made and „HEROIN” was recovered. On weighing it was found to be 55.82 gms. Accused Chukwnebuku S/o Ohsi r/o Anamasteshawn House No. 11, Abuja, Nigeria age 20 years present address Gali No. 36, Extension Dwarka Mod, New Delhi was arrested and case FIR No. 341 Dated 07.11.2019 U/S 21 NDPS Act, PS-17, Chandigarh has been registered. During the course of investigation, accused disclosed that he brought drugs from Delhi to supply in Chandigarh. So to crack the link in Delhi and Chandigarh, his police custody for 2 days has been granted by the Hon‟ble Court. Further investigation is in progress.

In another case ASI Jaskaran Singh was on patrolling duty for checking of vehicles near T-Point Jungle Area, Sec.43, Chandigarh near Bus Stand. At about 5.25 pm one foreigner came from outer road of Bus Stand and on seeing the police party, he turn speedily towards jungle area. The Police party chased and apprehended him on the suspicion that he may have any arms. On the checking „HEROIN‟ was recovered from his possession. On weighing it was found to be 50 gm. Accused Juseph James S/o Pastor Cliff r/o # 15, Dwarka Mod, Jain Road New Delhi age 28 years was arrested and case FIR No. 229 Dated 07.11.2019 U/S 21 NDPS Act, PS-36, Chandigarh has been registered. The police custody for 1 day has been obtained from the Hon‟ble Court to establish his link in Chandigarh and Delhi. Further investigation is in progress. It is pertinent to mention that Accused Joseph James has already been arrested by the Una Police, Himachal and presently on bail by the hon‟ble court. With their arrest total 105.82 gm Heroin has been recovered which is approximately having value of Rs. 5 lac. 159. 25.11.2019 Notorious Interstate Burglar Gang Busted

In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh, Incharge Crime Branch and the close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime has succeeded in “Busting a Notorious Burglar Gang” by arresting five burglars who were involved in 09 cases of burglary registered with the different police stations of Chandigarh Police. Firstly, their arrested were made in case FIR No.128 dated 09.10.2019 u/s 380, 454 IPC, PS-49, Chandigarh in which cash and jewellery worth Rs. 4,50,000/- were burglared by them on 09.10.2019. The detail of arrested accused persons is as under:- Profile of accused persons:- 1. Ishad @ Sangu s/o Jameer r/o H.No. N-38 B/23T, Jhuggi, City Park, Jahangir Puri, Delhi, age-35 yrs.

2. Sandeep @ Monu s/o Late Om Parkash r/o H.No. 345, Ward No. 14, Model Town, Jhajjar, Haryana, age-31 yrs.

3. Jishan @ Gopal s/o Jagdish Raj r/o H. No. 129, C- Block, Tents Peera gari, Sunder Vihar, West Delhi, age-32 yrs. SN FIR No. Dated u/s PS

4. Mukesh Kumar s/o Raghuvir Singh r/o H.No. 471/1, A- Block, JJ Camp Suraj Park, Samaypur, Badli, Delhi, age-35 yrs.

5. Kamal s/o Lala Ram r/o H.No. 1885, Jahangir Puri, Sanjarpur, North West, Delhi, present address:- H.No. 1966, J-Block, GT, Road Karnal, Jahangirpuri, New Delhi, age-38 yrs.

The facts of the case are as:- On the complaint of Sh. Vikas Sharma s/o Vijay Kumar Sharma, age-38 yrs r/o H.No.1/B, Sector-51/A, Chandigarh, a case FIR No. 128 dated 09.10.2019 U/s 380, 454 IPC, PS-49, Chandigarh has been registered regarding burglary in his house on 09.10.2019, while he alognwith his family went out for some work at about 1200 hours. When he came back in evening at about 8.00 PM, he found that locks of main gate & internal gate were broken and things were lying scattered. He further stated that some un-known person (s) had stolen cash rupees & jewellery after breaking the locks of his house. The approximately value of stolen property is Rs. 4,50,000/- The arrest of accused persons:- On, 20.11.2019, a secret information, received that above said case accused persons coming towards Chandigarh from Airport Light Point in a car and try to burglar in Chandigarh. After that a team of Crime Branch headed by SI Ashok Kumar under supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh got ready and moved as per information and has succeeded in arresting a gang of above mentioned 05 burglars from near Airport Light Point, Chandigarh alongwith Delhi registration number Taxi make Dzire having registration No. DLIZB-4144. On 21.11.2019, all the accused were produced before District Court, Chandigarh from where 04 days police remand got obtained till 25.11.2019. During the course of interrogation, on the instance of arrested accused persons, a huge recovery of stolen items into the below mentioned cases have been got recovered from Delhi. Further, during the course of enquiry, it found that this gang is active in Ludhiana, Lucknow, Delhi, Jaipur and Dehradun also. The dozens criminal cases are stands registered against all of the accused in the jurisdiction of Luchnow, Punjab and Delhi under burglary and theft head cases. The detail of cases worked out with the arrest of above burglars as well as case property as under:- 128 09.10.2019 380, 454, 411 IPC PS-49 127 9.10.2019 380,457, 411 IPC PS-49 280 15.08.2019 380, 454, 411 IPC PS-39 70 29.05.2019 380, 454, 411 IPC PS-MM 251 26.10.2019 380, 411 IPC, PS-26 10 23.01.2019 380, 411 IPC PS-Maloya 161 26.06.2019 380, 454, 411 IPC PS-34 25 27.02.2019 380, 454, 411 IPC PS-Sarangpur 20 10.02.2019 380, 411 IPC PS-Maloya

With the arrest of accused persons total Gold Jewellery 300 grams approximately worth Rs.12 lakhs has been recovered from their instances. Modus Operandi All the accused persons have criminal back ground, they used to come from Delhi by using car and targeted locked houses in Chandigarh during day & night time and after commit the crime, they returned on the same day. They had stolen the cash and jewellery from the locked houses and after that they deposited the stolen jewellery to Muthoot Fincorp Ltd and India Infoline Finance Limited (IIFL) located in New Delhi and borrowed the cash from there and distributed the amount among them. All the arrested accused are hard core criminals and having criminal back ground, the following cases registered against them in different states/areas:- Name of accused Total number of cases Area/Place Ishad @ Sangu 21 Delhi, Dehradun & Punjab Mukesh Kumar 12 Delhi, Dehradun & Punjab Kamal 02 Delhi Jishan @ Gopal 03 Delhi Sandeep @ Monu 08 Delhi Total 46

160. 29.11.2019 Arrest of Tanzanian Native Drug Peddler:-

Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 28.11.2019, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh, I/C Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in apprehending one Tanzanian native drug peddler namely Oscard Fredrique Mtiti by Sub Inspector Baldev Singh, Crime Branch with the help of his team officials. While, this team was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station, Sector-17, Chandigarh with regards to prevention and control crime and when were present near Fire Bridge Building, Sector-17, Chandigarh, in the mean time, one person came there, from ISBT, Sector-17 side on foot and on seeing police party returned towards, Sector-18, fastly and on the basis of suspicion, he was stopped by SI Baldev Singh and his team officials and his checking was made. When, his checking was continued, he tried to throw some material from his pocket and same was held by police party. On further checking, the same was found Heroin drugs, recovered from his possession and on weighting, it was found 100 gms Heroin worth Rs. 5 lakhs approximately. On asking, he disclosed his name as Oscard Fredrique Mtiti and could not produce any type of permit/license for holding the drugs in his possession. Consequent, case FIR No. 372 dated 28.11.2019 u/s 21 NDPS Act, PS-17, Chandigarh has been registered against the accused Oscard Fredrique Mtiti s/o Ferdrique Mititi r/o Palam New Delhi. 161. 11.12.2019 RECOVERY OF ILLEGAL WEAPONS FROM ACCUSED MONTY SHAH

Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police got a major success by arresting Monty Shah @ Ozans s/o Avtar Singh r/o H.No. 374, Village-Burail, Chandigarh alongwith the illegal one country made .32 bore Pistol with magazine, 05 live cartridges and one Country made Double Barrel Gun with 14 live cartridges from his possession as well as his disclosure statement.

On 10.12.2019, on the basis of secret information, a naka was laid near Sector 44/45 Light Point by the team of Crime Branch under the close supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh, I/C Crime Branch and on the direction of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime team headed by Sub Inspector Gurjiwan Singh alongwith his team members HC Amarjit Singh, Constable Virender Singh etc from where one person namely Monty Shah @ Ozans s/o Avtar Singh r/o H.No. 374, Village-Burail, Chandigarh was arrested with illegal weapons, while he was coming on foot from Sector-44/C side, and going towards village Burail. The team officials apprehended accused Monty Shah and on checking, one country made pistol with magazine and five live cartridges recovered from his possession. The accused could not produce any license and permit for possessing the same in his custody. Consequently, a case FIR No.306 dated 10.12.2019 u/s 25-54-59 Arms Act, PS-34, Chandigarh has been registered against accused Monty Shah @ Ozans. During the further investigation, 01 Country made Double Barrel Gun with 14 live cartridges recovered on the disclosure of accused Monty Shan @ Ozans from Jungle towards, Sector- 45/D, Chandigarh. Efforts are being made to recover more weapons from the possession of accused Monty Shah.

Previous Record of accused Monty Shah:- After going through the criminal record of accused Monty Shah, it found that during the year, 2015, one case FIR No. 307 dated 14.06.2015 u/s 382, 452, 120-B IPC & 25-54-59 Arms Act added 109 IPC, found registered against accused Monty Shah in Police Station, Sector-34, Chandigarh in which he alongwith his accomplice Tirath threatened two persons with dire consequences and demanded extortion on gun point at counter in Hotel Milan, Burail, Chandigarh and extorted Rs.10,000/- and two LCDs from them.

Total, 07 criminal cases having heinous nature found registered against accused Monty Shah in Police Station, Sector-34 and PS-26, Chandigarh. The details of same are under:-

Sr. FIR Date Under Section PS Category No. No. 1. 208 22.06.2010 147,148,149, PS-34 Attempt to 323,307,452 IPC murder 2. 398 12.08.2012 147,148,149,323,324,307 PS-34 Attempt to IPC murder 3. 599 17.10.2013 336,506 IPC & 25-27- PS-34 Arms Act 54-59 Arms Act 4. 307 14.06.2015 382, 452, 120-B IPC & PS-34 Trespass 25-54-59 Arms Act /Extortion added 109 IPC 5. 327 03.07.2015 332,353,307 IPC & 25- PS-34 Attempt to 54-59 Arms Act murder 6. 173 06.07.2015 307, 452, 336, 397, 323, PS26 Attempt to 34 IPC & 25-54-59 Arms murder Act 7. 413 24.11.2018 452,382,506,34 IPC & PS-34 Trespass 25-54-59 Arms Act

162. 30.12.2019 Arrest in Double Murder case

“Lawrence Bisnoi and Raju Basoida Gang” has been busted by the Crime Branch, Chandigarh. On 19.12.2019, the brutal murder of two deceased namely Vineet Kumar and Ajay @ Ajju was occurred in H.No.3556, Sector-15, Chandigarh by four unknown assailants. In the matter, case FIR No. 246 dated 19.12.2019 u/s 302, 34 IPC & 25-27-54-59 Arms Act was registered in Police Station, Sector-11, Chandigarh.

The teams of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police led by SI Ashok Kumar and SI Satvinder Singh under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh, I/C Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime got a major success in brutal murder case of Police Station, Sector-11, Chandigarh in which two young boys namely Vineet Kumar and Ajay @ Ajju were killed by gangsters of Lawrance Bisnoi & Raju Basodia Gang in H.No. 3556, Sector-15, Chandigarh, due to old enmity. The team succeeded in arresting three accused persons with main gangster Ankit Narwal in this case. The detail of same are as:-

1. Ankit Narwa 2. Sunil @ Sillu Nandal 3. Vicky @ Kalia

Brief fact of the case are as under:-

This case has been registered on the complaint of Mohit s/o Sh. Rajesh r/o Village- Gianpura, Teshil Barwala, District Hisar, Haryana and presently residing in H.No. 3556, Sector-15/D, Chandigarh as tenant alongwith his friends and intended to re-appear his exam of B.Sc. In the evening of 18.12.2019, when, he was present alongwith his friends namely Ajay Sharma s/o Sh. Suraj Mal r/o Brah Kalan, Kharak Ramji, Jind, Haryana, age about 21 years (final year Student of SD College, Sector- 32, Chandigarh and Vinit Kumar s/o Sh. Jasbir Singh r/o H.No. 43123, Defense Colony, Jind, HR, age-20 years (B.Sc Final year student of PG College, Sector-11, Chandigarh) in their room, in the meantime, 3-4 persons with weapon came inside the room and enquired about Ashu Nain. On this, he informed that he don‟t have knowledge about Ashu Nain. Following which, they opened fire on his roommates Ajay and Vineet and fled away from the spot. Due to this, both his roommates sustained bullet injuries and rushed to PGI, Chandigarh, where, they died during treatment. In the matter case FIR No. 246 dated 19.1.2019 u/s 302, 34 IPC & 25-27-54-59 Arms Act, PS-11, Chandigarh. Apprehension of accused:-

In this matter, two teams have been constituted by DSP Rajiv Kumar Ambata, DSP Crime comprising of SI Ashok Kumar and SI Satvinder Singh under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh for cracking the case and arresting the fled gangsters as soon as possible. Insp. Ranjit Singh, SI Ashok Kumar and SI Satvinder Singh have carried out multiple raids in Haryana, Rajasthan, UP, Gurjat, Maharastha and Delhi. Some vital information about movement of accused persons were generated through these raids and it came to the notice through secret informer of the Crime Branch team that Ankit Narwal is roaming with his accomplices Sunil @ Sillu and Vicky @ Kalia in Panchkula area by using Polo Vehicle having registration No. HR 70B 8075, in which, they fled away after committed the murder of deceased Vineet Kumar and Ajay @ Ajju. According to informer, they shall come in Chandigarh via Dolphin Chowk to commit another murder of Ashu Nain who was luckily missed at that time from the target. On 30.12.2019, on this secret information, a trap was laid by Crime Branch alongwith his teams‟ officials at the entering point DT Mall near Light Point, and as the vehicle Polo who was coming from Dolphin Chowk side entered in the jurisdiction of Chandigarh, the already deployed team officials were tried to stop the said vehicle but the vehicle driver namely Sillu Nandal speeded up the vehicle and fled away towards Kishangarh Chowk. The team officials started chasing that vehicle and nabbed them near Kishangarh Chowk, Chandigarh. After the through checking of the said vehicle two country made weapons along with 04 live cartridges have been recovered from the Dashboard of the car. After asking from them about the illegal weapons, they disclosed that they are coming Chandigarh to murder their next target Ashu Nain and further they revealed that they have committed the murder of Vineet Kumar and Ajay @ Ajju on 19.12.2019 in Sector-15, Chandigarh with the help of Deepak and Amit. The passport of Ankit Narwal and Vicky @ Kalia also recovered from their possession. It came to light that after commit the offence; they shall fly away in abroad. In the matter, their arrest was made in case FIR No.246 dated 19.12.2019 u/s 302, 34 IPC & 25-27-54-59 Arms Act, PS-11, Chandigarh.

Profile of accused person:- Ankit Narwal Name Ankit Narwal

Father Name Sunil Kumar

Permanent address Village-Kathura, PS-Bardoda, District-Sonipat, Haryana

Age 18 ½ yrs

Qualification 10+2

Profile of accused person:- Sunil @ Sillu Nandal Name Sunil @ Sillu Nandal

Father Name Suresh Kumar

Permanent address Village-Dahar, District-Panipat, Haryana,

Age 21yrs

Qualification B.A.

Accused stands Proclaimed Offender (PO) in case registered in Panipat City Police Station in Arms Act. He has also been arrested in Arms Act case stands registered in Karnal, Haryana.

Profile of accused person:- Vicky @ Kalia Name Vicky @ Kalia,

Father Name Rajesh

Permanent address Village-Ludhana, Tehsil-Safidon, District-Jind, Haryana

Age 19 yrs

Qualification 10th

Reason of enmity:

Complainant party as well as accused party both are involved in student politics and involved in verbal spat many times, which dragged them at the stage of killing each other. In the month of November, 2019, a quarrel was occurred between Ashu Nain and his accomplices Vineet Kumar and Ajay @ Ajju with Ankit Narwal and in this quarrel Ankit Narwal and Vicky Kalia got injuries while Ashu Nain attacked with bottle at their head and stomach. Since then, Ankit Narwal wants to revenge from Ashu Nain and his accomplices 163. 02.01.2020 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police got a major success in arresting accused Amit s/o Mahipal r/o Village-LalitKhera, District-Jind, Haryana, age-23 yrs, who was involved in the double murder case of deceasedVineet Kumar and Ajay @ Ajjuoccurred in H.No.3556, Sector-15, Chandigarh on 19.12.2019. In the matter, case FIR No. 246 dated 19.12.2019 u/s 302, 34 IPC& 25-27-54-59 Arms Act, was registered in PS-11, Chandigarh. On 30.12.2019, on the secret information, three accused persons namely AnkitNarwal, Sunil @ SilluNandal and Vicky @ Kaliainvolved in the murder case of Vineet Kumar and Ajay @ Ajju were arrested by Crime Branch and recovered two country made pistols and 04 live cartridges as well as Polo Vehicle registration No.HR 70B 8075 used in murder case from their possession. Further, 05 days police remand of all three accused were obtained from the Hon‟ble Court. During the course of interrogation of arrested accused AnkitNarwal, Sunil @ SilluNandal and Vicky @ Kalia, 03 more pistolsand 03 live cartridges were recoveredfrom their instances which were used in murder of deceased Vineet Kumar and Ajay @ Ajju. Further, during the course of investigation, accused AnkitNarwalrevealed that one of their accomplices, namely Amit s/o Mahipal r/o Village-LalitKhera, District-Jind, Haryana, age-23 yrs who was involved in the murder incident and remained with them as driver of Polo vehicle used by themshall visit to one of his relatives in Sector-22, Chandigarh from NayaGaon, where, presently he is residing. Today, 02.01.2020, after getting the information, a trap was laid by a team of Crime Branch officialsheaded by Insp. Sher Singh and Sub Inspector Ashok Kumar on the direction of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime under the close supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh, I/C Crime Branch near PEC, Sector-12, Chandigarh. As per the information, team officials noticed that one person is coming on his foot towards NayaGaon side and moving to PGI side. After getting the confirmation, he was apprehended by team officials, and during the course of interrogation, he revealed his name asAmit s/o Mahipal r/o Village-LalitKhera,District-Jind, Haryana, age-23 and confessed that he was involved in the murder incident of Vineet Kumar and Ajay @ Ajju. After that the arrest of accused Amitwas made in case in FIR No. 246 dated 19.12.2019 u/s 302, 34 IPC& 25-27-54-59 Arms Act, PS-11, Chandigarh. 164. 16.01.2020 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police, under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh, I/C Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, got a major success by apprehending two Alloy Wheel and tyres theft accused persons namely Jaspartap Singh and Aditya Rana by solving two cases of tyre theft registered in Police Station, 39 and Police Sector-36, Chandigarh on the complaint of Sh. Ashish Mishra and Sh. Sukhbir Singh, respectively. Profile of the accused:-

Jaspartap Singh s/o Sukhev Singh r/o H.No. 3046, 1st Floor, Sector-38/D, Chandigarh, age-26 years.

Aditya Rana s/o Rakesh Kumar r/o Village-Toga, District-Mohali, Punjab, age-23 years. The facts of cases are as:-

On 15.01.2020, secret information received that two persons who had stolen four Alloy Wheels and tyres of a Honda City car having registration No. CH01BA-8469 on 24.12.2019, which was parked in front of H.No.1010/2, Sector-40/B, Chandigarh, shall visit in motor market, Sector-38 West by using Swift Dezire Car in connection of selling the stolen four Alloy Wheels and tyres in market. After getting the information, a team led by ASI Rajinder Singh, Crime Branch alongwith with HC Het Ram and others laid a naka near Sector-25/38 light point towards Sector-38 side and started verification of moving vehicles. While this team was making search of the vehicles, they saw one Swift Dezire Car coming their side and moving towards, Sector-38 Motor Market, at this, the team officials signaled him for stopping. The driver of car stopped the vehicle and officials started searching of this suspected vehicle and found four Alloy Wheels with tyres in this vehicle. During the course of enquiry, both the car holder could not reply properly and could not show any bill and ownership of Alloy Wheels and tyres keeping in their vehicle and during the enquiry, they confessed that they have stolen these four Alloy Wheels and tyres from the Honda City Car on 24.12.2019, which was parked in front of H.No.1010/2, Sector-40/B, Chandigarh. Consequently, both accused namely Jaspartap Singh and Aditya Rana arrested in case FIR No.464 dated 24.12.2019 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh. This case was registered on the complaint of Sh. Ashish Mishra resident of Sector-40/B, Chandigarh. During the further course of investigation of this case, both the accused have also confessed that they had also been stolen four Alloy Wheels and tyres of one Boleno vehicle from Sector-42, Chandigarh and on the confession of these accused, the stolen four Alloy Wheels and tyres have recovered on their instance by solving case FIR No.259 dated 25.12.2019 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-36, Chandigarh, which stands registered on the complaint of Sh. Sukhbir Singh s/o Hemnant Singh resident of Sector-42/C, Chandigarh. With the arrest of these two accused namely Jaspartab Singh and Aditya Rana, two cases of four Alloy Wheels and tyres theft have been solved out. Previous criminal record:-

Accused Jaspartap Singh s/o Sukhev Singh r/o H.No. 3046, 1st Floor, Sector-38/D, Chandigarh previously found involved in a criminal case stands registered against him in Police Station, Sector-11, Chandigarh for vehicle theft i.e., case FIR No.93 dated 01.03.2015 u/s 473, 411 IPC, PS-11, Chandigarh.

Today, both the accused have been produced before the Hon‟ble District Court, Sector- 43, Chandigarh and their two days police remand got obtained. Efforts are being made to solve some more theft cases. The investigation of both the cases are carried out. 165. 27.01.2020 Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 27.01.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh, I/C Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in apprehending one drug peddler namely Ram Kumar Thapa Chattri by SI Ashok Kumar, Crime Branch with the help of his team officials on by chance recovery. While, this team was on patrolling in the area of Police Station, Sector-36, Chandigarh with regards to prevention and control of crime and when, just was present Lake parking, Sector-42/D, Chandigarh area, one person came there, towards Palm park, Sector-42/D, Chandigarh side on foot and moving ahead towards, ISBT, Sector-43 Chandigarh and on seeing police party returned, immediately, as such, on the basis of suspicion, he was stopped by SI Ashok Kumar and his team and his checking was made. In the meantime, he made tried to throw some material which, he had held in black colour bag, but same was held by police party. On further checking from black colour bag, contraband drug Charas was recovered from his possession in folding packing of Cello tapes and on weighting, it was found 3 Kgs. On asking, he disclosed his name as Ram Kumar Thapa Chattri and could not produce any type of permit/license for holding the drugs in his possession. Consequent, case FIR No. 14 dated 27.01.2020 u/s 20 NDPS Act, PS-36, Chandigarh has been registered against the accused Ram Kumar Thapa Chattri s/o Surya Bahadur r/o Village-Manhari, District-Makawanpur, Nepal, age-33 yrs. 166. 07.02.2020 On 07.02.2020, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police, under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, got success by apprehending 04 gamblers namely Satpal, Rajinder Kumar, Gordhan Dass and Skender Singh from near Botanical Garden near Gate-I, Khuda Lahora Road while, they were gambling and recovered total Rs. 36180/- and playing cards from their possession. The facts of case:- On 07.02.2020, a team of Crime Branch led by ASI Hira Singh, on a secret information nabbed four accused persons namely Satpal s/o Mulak Chand r/o H.No. 2895, DMC, Chandigarh, age-38 yrs, Rajinder Kumar s/o Amar Nath r/o H.No. 185, Village-Dhanas, Chandigarh, age-38 yrs, Gordhan Das s/o Chaman Lal r/o H.No. 54/A, near Teh Comp. Panipat, Haryana, age-16 yrs and Skender Singh s/o Gander Ram r/o H.No. 185, Village-Dhanas, Chandigarh, age-43 yrs while they were gambling and recovered Rs. 36,180/- and playing cards from their possession. Consequently, a case FIR No. 15 dated 07.02.2020 u/s 13-3-67 Gambling Act, has been registered in PS-Sarangpur, Chandigarh against all the four accused persons. 167. 07.02.2020 Crime Branch under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh and Inspector Sher Singh, Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in arresting two stolen vehicle disposer accused namely Asif Noor Mohammad Sayed and Prabhjot Singh and recovered total 18 stolen vehicles from their possession i.e., 16 four wheeler and 02 two wheeler vehicles total amount worth Rs. 2 Crores approximately. The facts of case are as:- Acting upon a secret information, a team of Crime Branch under the close supervision of SI Ashok Kumar arrested one accused namely Asif Noor Mohammad Sayed s/o Noor Mohammad Sayed r/o Dayes Plot Salisbari Park road Opp. Indian Medical Dayas Plot Gultekadi Pune City, Maharasthra, age-41 yrs on 19.01.2020 who is an active member of Inter-state Vehicle Lifter Gang are active in Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Delhi, Maharasthra who used to steal the vehicles and dispose them of after tampering the Engine and Chassis Number. After, his arrest, he was produced before Hon‟ble District Court, UT, Chandigarh on 20.01.2020 in case FIR No. 318 dated 29.12.2019 u/s 379, 411 IPC, PS-34, Chandigarh and got obtained 08 days police remand. During remand, one Honda City vehicle which was theft in the above mentioned case recovered on the instance of accused Asif Noor Mohammad Sayed from Amritsar, Punjab. On 21.01.2020, his accomplice namely Parphjot Singh has also been arrested from Amritsar on his disclosure that he is also involved in vehicle theft activities. With the arrest of both the accused, the following 18 stolen vehicles have been recovered. 168. 19.02.2020 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police got a major success in apprehending one person and unearthing drug racket involved in drug trafficking in India. On 18.2.2020, a team of Crime Branch headed by SI Satvinder Singh was on patrolling in the area of Police Station I.T Park, Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime. While they were near Tech Mahindera, one person who was stand on road with his Activa, on seeing police party he try to start his Activa quickly, on the basis of suspicion he was stopped and asked to show the documents of vehicle, when he open the diggy of his Activa, one transparent envelope containing some doubtful material was found. On further checking from poly envelop „Charas” was recovered and on weighing it was found to be 1.20 KG. Accused Fariyad S/o Bablu R/o # 35, Gali No.4, Deha colony Ambala Cant, Haryana (age 34 years) was arrested and case FIR No.30 Dated 18.02.2020 U/S 20 NDPS Act, PS-IT Park, Chandigarh has been registered. During the course of investigation, Fariyad disclosed that he purchased drugs from Gaziabad, UP from one his friend namely Sajan. 169. 21.02.2020 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh, Crime Branch and the close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in arresting four snatchers, who were involved in the incident of snatching mobile phones make Samsung A-7 & Infinix and in the matter case FIR No.13 dated 11.02.2020 u/s 379/A, 356, 411 IPC, and FIR No. 24 dated 13.02.2020 u/s 379-B, 356, 34, 411 IPC, stands registered in PS-19 and PS-31, respectively. The details of accused persons are as under:- 1. Jasbir Singh s/o Sh. Satnam Singh r/o Village-Chananwal, PS-Mahalkalan, Districrt-Barnala, Punjab, age-29 yrs. 2. Kulwinder Singh s/o Gajjan Singh r/o Village-Chak Mega Bran, Tehsil-Guru Harsahai, District- Ferozpur, Punjab, age-20 yrs. 3. Ajay Kumar s/o Sant Ram r/o Shiv Nagar Basti, Tehsil-Dabwali, District-Hissar, Haryana, age- 22 yrs. 4. Sonu s/o Harbans Ram r/o Village-Hakuwala, PS-Lambi, Tehsil and District-Mukatsar, Punjab, age- 20 yrs.

170. 26.02.2020 Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 25.02.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh, I/C Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in apprehending one drug peddler namely Gourav Kumar by Sub Inspector Ashok Kumar, Crime Branch with the help of his team officials on by chance recovery. While, this team was on patrolling in the area of Police Station, Sector-36, Chandigarh with regards to prevention and control crime and when, was present near Sector-52/53 dividing road, in the meantime, they saw, one person suddenly turn towards, Teen Colony, Sector-52, Chandigarh on seeing police party, on the basis of suspicious that he has some stolen or snatched items in his possession, he was stopped by Sub Inspector Ashok Kumar and his team and his checking was made. During the check, contraband drug Heroin in blue polythene, which he had held in his hand found in his possession. On weighting, contraband Heroin found 90.6 grams market value approximately 5 lakhs rupees. On asking, he disclosed his name as Gourav Kumar s/o Sahib Singh r/o H.No. 1051, Sector-52, Chandigarh and could not produce any type of permit/license for holding the drugs in his possession. Consequent, case FIR No. 43 dated 25.02.2020 u/s 21 NDPS Act, PS-36, Chandigarh has been registered against the accused Gourav Kumar. 171. 20.03.2020 Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police got a major success in apprehending two persons from whom the big drug haul has been recovered. Today a team of Crime Branch on the direction of DSP Rajeev Ambasta DSP/Crime under the close supervision of Insp. Harinder Singh Sekhon headed by SI Ashok Kumar alongwith the police party was on patrolling duty, at about 9.30 pm when they were near Sai Baba Mandir, Sec.29D, Chandigarh one Endevour No. HR01AL7095 on seeing the police party stopped and tried to turn back. On the basis of above said suspicion the car was stopped with the help of police officials and the person sitting the driver seat disclosed his name as Karan Sharda S/o Sh. Kuljiwan Sharda R/o # 228, AKS Colony, Zirakpur and the other person who was in the car disclosed his name as Durgesh Mishra S/o Sh. Laxmi Kant Mishra r/o # 504, Dashmesh Colony, Zirakpur. They could not give the satisfactory reply regarding turning back and try to flee away. On searching the brown bag which was kept in the lap of driver Karan Sharda 140 tablets of Parvorin spas containing tramadol hydrochloride 100 mg Diclofenac sodium 50 mg Diclomine hydrochloride 10 mg, Chloropheniramine malate 4 mg and 32 Injections (22 without label) and 10 injections of Buprenorphine injection IP2 ML and on the search of white bag which was on the front seat near the driver 248 bottles of syscodine syrup were recovered. Furthermore, on searching the bag which was kept in the lap of Durgesh Mishra 170 tablets of Parvorin spas containing tramadol hydrochloride 100 mg Diclofenac sodium 50 mg Diclomine hydrochloride 10 mg, Chloropheniramine malate 4 mg and 33 Injections (23 without label) and 10 injections of Buprenorphine injection IP2 ML were recovered. One more white bag was found which was on the nearby vacant seat of Durgesh Mishra 200 bottles of syscodine syrup were recovered. They could not produce any permit and licence regarding keeping the same. In this regards FIR No. 47 dated 20.3.2020 u/s 22 NDPS Act PS-Ind. Area, Chandigarh was registered.

172. 25.04.2020 In their continuous effort to help the needy people who are struck in their houses in lockdown/curfew implemented since 25.03.2020 within the jurisdiction of Chandigarh, due to the sudden broke out of Covid-19 epidemic, today, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the aegis of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime as well as Insp. Ranjit Singh, Crime Branch in association with Dera Baba Gurudwara, Mani Majra, Chandigarh have distributed the cooked food among the needy persons residing in the areas of Mani Majra and Shastri Park, UT, Chandigarh. The food was prepared at renowned Dera Baba Gurdwara, Mani Majra, Chandigarh with the help of volunteers as well as Crime Branch officials. The food containing van was flagged of by Sh. Rajeev Kumar, DANIP, DSP Crime in the presence of members of Gurudwara Management Committee as well as the eminent social workers of society. During the food distribution proper social distancing was maintained by instructing the officials of Crime Branch, Volunteers of Dera Baba Gurudwara as well as needy persons of the area. Further, the people were also advised to follow the instructions issued by Administration about remaining within their houses, maintaining social distance as well as using masks. Earlier to this, Crime Branch has also distributed packets of rations amongst the needy persons residing at the outskirts of the city Chandigarh. In future, such philanthropist work will also be organized by Crime Branch under the guidance of senior officers.

173. 27.04.2020 On 27.04.2020, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police, under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, got a major success in apprehending three bootleggers Harinder Garg s/o Sh. Rajinder Kumar r/o Village-Kumbra near Neem Nath Mandir, District-Mohali, Punjab, age-42 yrs (In charge of Liquor Godown/Thekedar), Vijay Kumar s/o Sh. Janak Raj r/o Shop No. 225, Village-Kajheri, Chandigarh, age-42 yrs and Ashish Kumar s/o Sh. Amar Singh r/o H.No. 328, Village-Kajheri, Chandigarh with the possession of 34 boxes of illegal liquor make Royal Arm, Royal King, Imperial, Platinum, Collegiums Special (total 408 bottles) alongwith vehicle make Bolero registration No. CH100T-2909. The facts of case:- On 27.04.2020, a team of Crime Branch led by ASI Rajinder Singh, while performing their duties in the area of Police Station, Sector-36, Chandigarh for maintaining law & order duties. In the meantime, ASI Rajinder Singh got secret information from informer that in the back side of Liquor Godown, Sector-36/C, Chandigarh, some persons are loading Bolero Vehicle with illegal liquor for supplying the same in the jurisdiction of Chandigarh. After getting the information, ASI Rajinder Singh alongwith the team officials raided at the Godown, Sector-36/D, Chandigarh and succeeded in apprehending three accused Harinder Garg s/o Sh. Rajender Kumar r/o Village-Kumbra near Neem Nath Mandir, District-Mohali, Punjab, age-42 yrs (Incharge of Liquor Shop), Vijay Kumar s/o Sh. Janak Raj r/o H.No. 225, Village-Kajheri, Chandigarh, age-42 yrs and Ashish Kumar s/o Sh. Amar Singh r/o H.No. 328, Village-Kajheri, Chandigarh alongwith illegal liquor and Bolero Vehicle registration No. CH100T- 2909 from the outside of Godown. During the search of loading vehicle, the quantity of illegal liquor found 34 boxes of illegal liquor make Royal Arm-18 boxes, Royal King-6 boxes, Imperial-3, Platinum-5 boxes, Collegiums‟ Special-2 boxes (total 408 bottles). Accused persons could not produce any license and permit for opening Liquor Godown and carrying the liquor during Curfew/lockdown, so all three accused have been arrested by the team of Crime Branch. With this, accused has also violated the orders of District Magistrate issued regarding Covid-19 Epidemic. Consequently, case FIR No.103 dated 27.04.2020 u/s 188 IPC & 61-1-14 Excise Act, has been registered against the accused Harinder Garg, Vijay Kumar and Ashish Kumar in Police Station, Sector-36, Chandigarh. 174. 27.04.2020 Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 27.04.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in apprehending one drug peddler namely Sandeep s/o Avtar Singh r/o Room No. 33, 3rd Floor, Sahib Complex, Dhanas, U.T., Chandigarh on by chance recovery while the team of Crime Branch was on patrolling in the area of Police Station-Sarangpur, Chandigarh with regards maintaining law and order during lockdown/Curfew implemented in Chandigarh and when, just was present near Community Centre, EWS Colony, Dhanas, team saw one person roaming there, violating the lockdown and asked him reason but he could not reply this question. On further checking, contraband drugs Heroin recovered from his possession and on weighting; it was found 100 gms value worth Rs. 5 lacs. On asking, he disclosed his name as Sandeep and could not produce any type of permit/license for holding the drugs in his possession. The accused violated the order of DM issued in connection with Covid-19. Consequent, case FIR No. 59 dated 27.04.2020 u/s 188 IPC & 21 NDPS Act, PS-Sarangpur, Chandigarh has been registered against the accused Sandeep s/o Avtar Singh r/o Room No. 33, 3rd Floor, Sabhib Complex, Dhanas, U.T., Chandigarh.

175. 23.05.2020 Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 22.05.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime succeeded in apprehending one drug peddler namely Vikrant s/o Kiranpal r/o H.No.2512/2, Phase-2, Ram Darbar, U.T., Chandigarh on by chance recovery while the team of Crime Branch was on patrolling in the area of Police Station-31, Chandigarh with regards maintaining law and order and just was present near Park Ram Darbar, Phase-2, in front of Punia Godown, team saw one person coming from Godown side and suddenly returned by seeing police party, at this, his checking was made by the police party and contraband drugs Heroin recovered from his possession and on weighting; it was found 13.75 gms value worth Rs. 80,000/- approximately. On asking, he disclosed his name as Vikrant and could not produce any type of permit/license for holding the drugs in his possession. Consequent, case FIR No. 109 dated 22.05.2020 u/s 21 NDPS Act, PS-31, Chandigarh has been registered against the accused Vikrant s/o Kiranpal r/o H.No. 2512/2, Phase-2, Ram Darbar, U.T., Chandigarh. After checking the criminal record of drug peddler Vikrant, 02 criminal cases under NDPS Act & Tress Passing heads found registered against him in Police Station, Sector-26 and Sector-31, respectively. 176. 24.05.2020 In a major breakthrough and cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 24.05.2020, teams of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the guidance of Inspectors and close supervision by DSP Crime, Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, two cases have been registered under NDPS Act. The team led by SI Satvinder Singh was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh with regards to prevent and control crime and was present near Shiv Mandir, Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh, in the meantime, police party saw one lady carrying light yellow colour carry bag in her hand, suddenly moved back by seeing the police party. On suspicion basis, Sub Inspector Satvinder Singh apprehended her with the help of two lady police officials and asked the reason of suddenly moved back, at this she cannot give satisfy answer. On further checking by two lady police officials from carry bag kept by her in hand, there found one small polythene envelope in it, having contraband drugs Heroin and on weighting, it found 260 gms. On asking, she could not produce any type of permit/license for holding the drugs in her possession. Consequent, case FIR No. 118 dated 24.05.2020 u/s 21 NDPS Act, PS-Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh, has been registered against the accused. During the course of investigation, she disclosed that she is residing in Delhi and having 01 son and 04 daughters. She came to Chandigarh for the purpose of supplying contraband drugs as she has no other source of income for livelihood as his husband is a drunkard person. She is illiterate. 177. 24.05.2020 On 24.05.2020, The team led by Sub Inspector Ashok Kumar was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station 49, Chandigarh with regards to prevent and control crime and was present near Motor Market, Sector-48, Chandigarh, in the meantime, police party saw one person coming towards Motor Market side by using motorcycle, on seeing police party, he stopped and tried to turn back, on suspicion basis, he was stopped by police officials and during his search, there found contraband drugs Heroin having weight 30 gms from a black colour bag which was hanged on the motor cycle. On asking, he disclosed his name as Neeraj Bhatt s/o Sunder Mani Bhatt r/o H.No.620, Dashmesh Nagar, Naya Gaon, Mohali, Punjab and could not produce any type of permit/license for holding the drugs in his possession. Consequent, case FIR No. 41 dated 24.05.2020 u/s 21 NDPS Act, PS-49, Chandigarh, has been registered against the accused Neeraj Bhatt.

178. 26.05.2020 In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime, UT, Chandigarh succeeded in arresting one accused person namely Deepak Pandey alongwith the illegal weapon one country made Pistol (cutta) from his possession

Today i.e., 26.05.2020, a team of Crime Branch led by ASI Heera Singh was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station, Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh with regards to prevention and control of crime. While, this team was present near light point, Vikas Nagar, they saw one person coming from the jungle area side, who suddenly returned by seeing police party. On the basis of suspicion, he was stopped by police party and his search was made. During the search, a country made pistol (cutta) illegal weapon recovered from his possession. On asking, he disclosed his name as Deepak Pandey s/o Amrish Pandey r/o H.No 434, near Gurudwara, Village-Mauli, UT, Chandigarh. Consequently, a FIR No. 120 dated 26.05.2020 u/s 25-54-59 Arms act, PS-Mauli Jagran, UT, Chandigarh registered against the accused Deepak Pandey.

During the course of investigation, it found that accused Deepak Pandey has criminal back ground, a case under Attempt to Murder head stands registered against him in Police Station, Sector-14, Panchkula, Haryana.

179. 28.05.2020 Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 27.5.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by SI Ashok Kumar under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime has succeeded in apprehending one drug paddler namely Vishal S/o Sh. Kushan pal R/o # 3385, Sec.25D, Chandigarh by the chance recovery. While this team was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station-31, Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime near turn Shiv Mandir Ph.2, Ram Darbar, Chandigarh. At about 1.40 PM one person coming on foot from Shiv Mandir towards main road, Chandigarh and on seeing police party he stop and turn back, on the basis of suspicion he was stopped and during search of green colour bag which he was carrying in his right hand, Heroin wrapped in white polythene was recovered and on weighing it was found to be 50 Gram. Case FIR No.117 Dated 27.5.2020 U/S 21 NDPS Act, PS-31, Chandigarh has been registered against him. When previous criminal record of accused Vishal checked, it found that 1 case of snatching had been registered against him in Police Station Sec.39, Chandigarh.

180. 03.06.2020 On 2.6.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by SI Ashok Kumar under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime succeeded in apprehending one drug paddler namely Sahil Verma @ Kaku S/o Sh. Sanjeev Kumar R/o # 3254, Sec.45D, Chandigarh by the chance recovery. While this team was on patrolling duty near airport light point, Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime. At about 3.30 PM one Gray colour I-20 car Registration No. CH01BE-9295 came towards Airport Light Point and on seeing police party he stop his vehicle and try to turn back, on the basis of suspicion he was stopped and during search of green colour carry bag which was on his lap, Heroin wrapped in white polythene was recovered and on weighing it was found to be 52 Grams. Case FIR No.122 dated 2.06.2020 U/S 21 NDPS Act, P.S. 31, Chandigarh has been registered against him. When previous criminal record of accused Sahil Verma @ Kaku checked, it found that 2 cases have already been registered against him i.e. 1 case of Rioting in PS-17 and 1 case of Theft Act in PS-31. 181. 06.06.2020 A team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police led by SI Neeraj under the supervision of Inspector Harinder Singh Sekhon & Inspector Satvinder Singh, and close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime got a major success in recently occurred “Sector-33 Shootout” case by the arrest one of the shooter namely Karan Sharma s/o Vijay Sharma r/o Lohara Colony Gali No. 2, near Rehrru Sahib Gurudawara, Ludhiana, Punjab , age-23 yrs by following the leads and output on the behalf of interrogation of previous arrested accused sewak @ Guri who was arrested by crime branch on 3rd June, 2020 presently with crime branch on five days police custody. Sewak has been providing logistics to these criminal for long time. From the preliminary investigation done yet it has come to knowledge that accused Karan Sharma was directed by Dipu Banur to execute the firing along with four other gang members and he was one of the active shooters who opened fire. Today, Crime Branch got a tip that accused Karan Sharma trying to escape from Chandigarh and right now, he was at Mauli Jagran, waiting for further instructions of his bosses. Accordingly a team under Sub Insp Neeraj was constituted and succeded in nabbing the accused. He has been arrested and will be produced before court. Accused Karan Sharma got in touch with Deepu Banur through social media and was promised some money for participating in this act which has not been paid to him. 182. 16.06.2020 33 Brand new stolen mobile phones worth Rs.9 lakhs recovered by Crime Branch. In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch under the supervision of Inspector Harinder Singh Sekhon, Crime Branch and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime, Chandigarh has succeeded in arresting one mobile theft accused namely Mani Rattan s/o Sh. Ram Shami r/o H.No. 1447, Bhaskar Colony, Sector-25, Chandigarh, age-27 yrs and recovered thirty three (33) brand new stolen mobile phones worth Rs. 9 lakhs from his possession and worked out case FIR No. 186 dated 28.05.2020 u/s 380,457, 411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh. On 15.06.2020, secret information received that accused person Mani Rattan who alongwith his accomplices has committed burglary of brand new mobile phones at SCO No. 152, Sector-37/C, Chandigarh will go to Sector-24/37, Chandigarh from his house. On getting the information, swiftly, a team of Crime Branch led by SI Ashok Kumar who was already present in UT, Chandigarh area in connection with the investigation of FIR No.186 dated 28.05.2020 u/s 380,457, 411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh, came in action and laid a naka near UIT Gate, Sector-25, Chandigarh and started thorough checking of the suspected persons as well as vehicles. While, this team was checking the suspected persons & vehicles, they saw one person coming towards Bhaskar Colony, Sector-25, in the meantime, informer gave them signal that this is the same person who alongwith his accomplices committed burglary of mobile phones from Sector-37, Chandigarh. After getting the signal, the team officials nabbed him. On asking, he disclosed his name as Mani Rattan and while his checking was made, one stolen mobile phone was recovered from his possession and his arrest was made in case FIR No. 186 dated 28.05.2020 u/s 380,457, 411 IPC, PS-39, Chandigarh. During the course of investigation, total 33 stolen mobile phones have been recovered on his instance. The detail of the case are as under: On 28.05.2020, complainant Sh. Anil Dhingra s/o Sh. Arjun Das r/o H.No. 1261, Sector-21/B, Chandigarh has made a complaint that some unknown person (s) has burgled 55 mobile phones from his shop SCO No.152, Sector-37/C, Chandigarh on the intervening night of 27/28.05.2020. In the matter, on the statement of complainant, a case FIR No. 186 dated 28.05.2020 u/s 380, 457 IPC was registered in Police Station, Sector-39, Chandigarh against unknown accused. Modus Operandi:- Accused has no previous criminal record. He stated that during the night time, he alongwith his three accomplices has broken the shutter lock of Showroom of SCO No. 152, Sector-37/C, Chandigarh and burgled new brand mobiles to meet their daily expenses as during the lockdown/curfew of sudden broke out of Covid-19, they have nothing to do. The detail of recovered mobile phones is as under;-

Make of mobile phones Numbers Redmi Note 20 Oppo 08 Samsung 04 Apple I-phone 01

183. 17.06.2020 660 quarters of country made illegal liquor recovered by Crime Branch. In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Ranjit Singh, Crime Branch and the close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime, Chandigarh has succeeded in arresting one accused namely Karan s/o Tulsi Ram r/o H.No. 154/C, Sunder Nagar, Mauli Jagran, Part-2, Chandigarh with the recovery of 660 quarters of country made illegal liquor from his possession. The facts of the case are as under:- On 16.06.2020, a team of Crime Branch led by ASI Rajinder Singh Dhanda, while performing their duties in the area of Police Station, Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh in order to prevent and detect crime got secret information through informer that one person is selling/supplying illegal liquor in Jhuggi near Tubwell Kabari market, Mauli Jagran. After getting the information, police party moved towards the given address and nabbed one person namely Karan s/o Tulsi Ram r/o H.No. 154/C, Sunder Nagar, Mauli Jagran, Part-2, Chandigarh while he was selling illegal liquor outside of his jhuggi. The quantity of illegal liquor found total 660 quarters of country made illegal liquor marka Santra. In the matter, accused could not produce any license and permit for selling/supplying the liquor before police officials. Consequently, case FIR No.128 dated 16.06.2020 u/s 61-1-14 Excise Act, has been registered against the accused Karan in Police Station, Sector-Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh. 184. 06.07.2020 Drug paddlers arrested Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 6.7.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by SI Neeraj Kumar under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime has succeeded in apprehending one drug paddler namely Daljeet Singh S/o Sh. Balbir Singh R/o Vill-Mehraj, Teh-Rampur Phool, Distt- Bathinda. While this team was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station-39, Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime near turn Kacha Rasta, Village Palsora, Dividing road Sector 55/56, Chandigarh. At about 7.40 PM, one person coming on foot toward road from Kacha Rasta, on seeing police party he tried to run away and try to throw some suspicious items from his pent. On the basis of suspicion, he was apprehended. On being checked, contraband drugs heroin was found. On weighing it found to be 50 grams contraband Heroin. Consequent, case Case FIR No.212 Dt 06.07.2020 U/s 21 NDPS Act, P.S. Sec-39, Chandigarh was registered against drug peddler Daljeet Singh.

185. 09.07.2020 „BABRIYA GANG‟s‟ members arrested On 7.7.2020, a secret information was received that the „BABRIYA GANG‟s‟ members who are involved more than dozen of cases of snatching in Delhi are active in Chandigarh. They are involved in recent snatching cases in Chandigarh and presently roaming in the area of Police Station Sec.31, Chandigarh. Acting upon the secret information a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by SI Ashok Kumar under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime was constituted. When the police party was near Shiv Mandir Ph.2, Ram Darbar, two persons were apprehended while they were looking for their another prey. Further they disclosed their name Anil s/o Bhan Singh VPO. Rampura, The. Kairana Distt. Shamli UP, age 28 years and Hari Parkash s/o Sh. jagdish r/o Vill. Biralian PS- Jhingana, Distt. Shamli UP.

On further interrogation of Anil and Hari Parkash, they disclosed that two more persons of their gang are in the city and using the stolen motor cycle with fake number plate. Acting upon this information ASI Kanwal Pal alongwith the police official carried out the checking of the vehicle near under Bridge, Sec.11, Chandigarh, at about 6.30 pm two persons came on Bajaj Dominor 400 bearing Registration No. HR11J-9599 and on seeing the police party they tried to flee, but both were apprehended with the help of police officials. They disclosed their name as Ajay Kumar S/o Sh. Satish Kumar VPO. Vinod Nagar Samrala Road, near Khalsa School, Khanna, Distt. Ludhiana (PB) age 29 years and Rajiv @ Raju S/o Jado Ram Vill. Khanpur, PS- Jhinjana, Distt. Shamli UP, age 32 years. On the verification of registration number HR11J-9599 pasted on Motor Cycle, the same was found of Pulsar Motor Cycle, but the original registration number of the Dominor Motor Cycle is DL8SCS-4784, which has been stolen from Delhi and Case FIR No. 014031 dated 26.6.2020 u/s 379 IPC PS-Sarup Nagar, New Delhi has already been registered in this regards. In this regards FIR No. 96 dated 8.7.2020 U/S 473,411 IPC PS-11, Chandigarh was registered and both were arrested accordingly. With the arrest of these four accused Four cases of Gold Chain snatching, one of Police Station Sec.31, One of Police Station Sec.11, One of Police Station Manimajra and one of Police Station Sector 39 are worked out and two stolen motor cycle has also been recovered from them.

186. 11.07.2020 Drug paddler arrested Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 11.7.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by SI Neeraj Kumar under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime has succeeded in apprehending one drug paddler namely Sajan Singh S/o Sh. Hardev Singh R/o # 22/3, Vill. Attawa, Chandigarh. Age-26 years. While this team was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station Sector 36, Chandigarh and reached near Lake Parking Sector 42, Chandigarh, at about 6.45 PM, one person coming on foot toward road from Lake parking and on seeing police party he immediately turned back and run away. On the basis of suspicion, he was apprehended. On being checked, contraband drugs kept in yellow carry bag wrapped in News Paper was found. On weighing it found to be 2 Kg 200 grams contraband Charas. Consequent, case FIR No. 135 Dt 11.7.2020 U/s 20 NDPS Act, P.S. Sec-36, Chandigarh was registered against drug peddler Sajan Singh. Moreover, efforts is being made to ascertain the sources of recovered contraband drugs and name of person (s), whom, it to be sold in the tricity by arrested accused.

187. 26.07.2020 Drug paddlers arrested Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 25.7.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime has succeeded in apprehending one drug paddler namely Ravinder Kumar @ Kala S/o Sh. Barumal R/o # 1069 Sec-07 Chandigarh permanent address Vill- Bhapora Distt Bhiwani (HR). While this team was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station-26, Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime near Khalsa collage 7/26 light point, Chandigarh. At evening time, one person coming on foot toward road from residential area of sector-7 chd, on seeing police party he tried to run away and try to throw some suspicious items from his pent. On the basis of suspicion, he was apprehended. On being checked, contraband drugs heroin was found. On weighing it found to be 55 grams contraband Heroin. Consequent, case Case FIR No.133 Dt 25.07.2020 U/s 21 NDPS Act, P.S. Sec-26, Chandigarh was registered against drug peddler Ravinder Kumar @ Kala. During the course of investigation, efforts will be made to ascertain the sources of recovered contraband drugs and name of person (s), whom, it to be sell in tricity by arrested accused.

188. 02.08.2020 Drug paddlers arrested Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 02.08.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon, SI Ashok Kumar and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime has succeeded in apprehending one drug paddler one Lady age 32 years. While this team was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station-11. Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime near bridge vill-Khuda Lahora, Chandigarh. At time 03:30 PM, one lady coming on foot near bridge vill-Khuda Lahora from PGI side, on seeing police party she tried to run away and try to throw some suspicious item which was hold in her right hand. On the basis of suspicion, she was apprehended. On being checked, contraband drugs Heroin was found. On weighing it found to be 78.42 Grams Heroin contraband Consequent, case Case FIR No.103 Dt 02.08.2020 U/s 21 NDPS Act, P.S. Sec- 11, Chandigarh was registered against drug peddler one Lady. During the course of investigation, efforts will be made to ascertain the sources of recovered contraband drugs and name of person (s), whom, it to be sell in tricity by arrested accused. 189. 05.08.2020 39.85 gm Heroin recovered Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 05.08.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by Sub Inspector Neeraj Kumar, under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon, and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime has succeeded in apprehending one drug paddler namely Ajay Kumar @ Jacky S/o Leela Ram @ Lila Ram R/o @ R/o Jhuggi No-60 Ph-III,BDC Sec-26 Chandigarh. While this team was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station-17 Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime near Football Ground Parking road side Sec-17 , Chandigarh. At time 06:40 PM, one person coming on foot from near football ground sec-17, on seeing police party he tried to run away. On the basis of suspicion, he was apprehended. On being checked, contraband drugs 39.85 Grams Heroin was found. Consequent, Case FIR No.139Dt05.08.2020 U/s 21 NDPS Act, P.S. Sec-17 Chandigarh was registered against drug peddler Ajay Kumar @ Jacky During the course of investigation, efforts will be made to ascertain the sources of recovered contraband drugs and name of person (s), whom, it to be sell in tricity by arrested accused. Details of Cases already registered against him 1. FIR No-159 dt. 14.06.2012 U/S 427,379,435,411 IPC PS-26 Chd 2. FIR No-514 dt. 11.12.2017 U/S 323,354,506,34 IPC PS-39 Chd 3. FIR No-283 dt. 30.12.2011 U/S 394 IPC PS-Ind. Area Chd.

190. 08.08.2020 10 KG & 100 grams Ganja (Drugs) recovered Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 07.08.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by Sub Inspector Ashok Kumar, under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Singh Sekhon, and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DANIPS, DSP Crime has succeeded in apprehending one drug paddler namely Sanjeet Kumar s/o Sh. Dawarika Parsad r/o VIllage- Navadih, Tehsil-Muthurapur, Distt- Jamui, Bihar, age-34 yrs. While this team was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station-Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime near Community Center, Vikash Nagar, Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh. At 8.00 PM, one person coming on foot near Community Center left side of police party and carrying white colour plastic Katta on his right solder and on seeing police party, he tried to run away. On the basis of suspicion, he was apprehended by the team officials. On being checked, contraband drugs 10 KG & 100 grams Ganja was found from his possession. Consequently, case FIR No.167 dated 07.08.2020 u/s 20 NDPS Act, Police Station- Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh has been registered against drug peddler Sanjeet Kumar s/o Sh. Dawarika Parsad. During the course of investigation, it revealed that drug peddler Sanjeet Kumar was supplying illegal liquor from Chandigarh to Bihar and in lieu of it, he brought contraband drugs Ganja from there in Chandigarh. During the course of investigation, efforts will be made to ascertain the sources of recovered contraband drugs and name of person (s), whom, it to be sold in tricity by arrested accused.

191. 16.08.2020 Theft cases solved On 14.08.2020 a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by Sub Inspector Neeraj Kumar, under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon, and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime has succeeded in apprehending one Arun Singh @ Chigal S/o Sh. Tirlok Singh R/o # 146, Near Gurduwara Sahib, Village- Khuda Lahora Chandigarh.Age-19 years and solved the two cases of theft. While this team was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station-11 Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime near bridge Khuda Lahora, Chandigarh. At time 4.15 PM, Sub Insp. Neeraj got a secret information and on the behalf of secret information he apprehended one motorcyclist with the help of police party, on enquiry he could not give satisfactory reply as well as could not provide the paper of motor cycle. On further enquiry the motor cycle No. CH01BW8113 which was driving was found involved in case FIR No. 109 dated 13.08.2020 u/s 379,411 IPC PS-SRG, Chandigarh and was arrested in the case and during interrogation he disclosed that he has stolen the two motor cycles and some mobile phones from the different sectors of Chandigarh. His disclosure statement was recorded and one M/C No. HR08L4095 of FIR No. 378 dated 30.11.2019 u/s 379, 411 IPC PS-17, Chandigarh was also recovered. Moreover, one more motor cycle No. CH04E2042 and 06 mobile phones (different companies) have been recovered which were taken into the police possession u/s 102 CrPC in that case.

192. 26.08.2020 1.100 kg opium recovered Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 25.8.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by SI Om Parkash under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime has succeeded in apprehending one drug paddler namely Arif Saefi @ Mohd. Arif s/o Nathu Saefi Vill. Gulei Mamana Teh. Aonala Distt. Barelli UP. While this team was on patrolling duty in the area of Police Station-Industrial Area, Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime. At about 3.30 PM, one person carrying bag in his hand coming on foot from CTU Work shop towards Cremation Ground Industrial Area Ph.1, Chandigarh and on seeing police party he immediately turn back. On the basis of suspicion, he was apprehended and during the search of his bag Opium was recovered from him and on weighing it found to be 1.100 kg. Consequent, case FIR No.170 dated 25.8.2020 u/s 18 NDPS Act, PS-IA, Chandigarh was registered against drug peddler Arif Saefi. 193. 26.08.2020 100 Strips (Tablets) of Clevidol 100sr containing Tramodol Hydrochlorided IP 100 mg and 50 small Bottles of Chlorpheniramine Maleate and Codine Phosphate Syrup Syscodine 100 ml containing codine phosphate 10 mg drugs recovered Cracking the whip on the drug paddlers, on 26.8.2020, a team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by SI Ashok Kumar under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime has succeeded in apprehending one drug paddler namely Amrit Pal Singh S/o Hazur Singh R/o # 1522, Ph.3B2, Mohali. While this team was on night patrolling duty in the area of Police Station-34, Chandigarh with regard to prevention and control of crime. At about 9.30 PM, one vehicle No. DL9CAL-1433 come from market side toward main road and on seeing police party he immediately stop his vehicle and tried to turn back, but the car was stopped. On the basis of suspicion that he may be a thief or the vehicle is stolen one, he was apprehended and during the search of plastic bag which was kept in front of the driver seat 100 Strips (Tablets) of Clevidol 100sr containing Tramodol Hydrochlorided IP 100 mg and 50 small Bottles of Chlorpheniramine Maleate and Codine Phosphate Syrup Syscodine 100 ml containing codine phosphate 10 mg were recovered as well as car was also taken into police possession as case property. He could not produce any licence for keeping the contrabands. Consequent, case Case FIR No.174 dt 27.8.2020 U/A 22 NDPS Act 34, Chandigarh was registered against drug peddler Amritpal Singh. During the course of investigation, efforts will be made to ascertain the sources of recovered contraband drugs and name of person (s), whom, it to be sell in tricity by arrested accused.

194. 13.09.2020 In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Satvinder Singh and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Ambasta, DSP Crime is able to arrest the Gang Members of Deepu Banur and recovered 1 pistol, 2 desi Katte and 6 live cartridges. Brief Facts On 13.9.2020 a secret information that the three persons belongs to Deepu Banur Gang were roaming in the area of Chandigarh in Baleno Car with illegal weapon as they have come to Chandigarh to take revenge of his old enmity. Acting upon this information a naka was laid down back side of Police Lines Sec.26, Chandigarh road toward BDC to Sant Kabir Turn. At about 1.30 pm one Grey Colour Baleno Car No. CH121T-1552 sitting three persons came there and they were stopped and all three tried to flee away, but they were apprehended with the help of police officials. They disclosed their name as Sumit s/o Sh. Shayam Sunder Singh R/o # 2902, Sec.66, Mohali, Age 25 years, Sarabjeet Singh @ Satta s/o Late Sh. Rashpal Singh R/o Vill. Dhurali PS. Sohana, Distt. Mohali and Maninder Singh @ Manny S/o Sh. Tarlochan Singh R/o VPO. Dhurali PS. Sohana, Distt. Mohali. During the search of them one pistol and 4 cartridges with magazine recovered from the possession of Sumit, one Desi Katta with one live cartridge was recovered from Sarabjit Singh and one live cartridge was recovered from Maninder Singh. All were arrested and in this regard the above said case was got registered. Profile of accused:- 7. Sumit s/o Sh. Shayam Sunder Singh R/o # 2902, Sec.66, Mohali, Age 25 years.

8. Sarabjeet Singh @ Satta s/o Late Sh. Rashpal Singh R/o Vill. Dhurali PS. Sohana, Distt. Mohali. Age 25 years.

9. Maninder Singh @ Manny S/o Sh. Tarlochan Singh R/o VPO. Dhurali PS. Sohana, Distt. Mohali. Age 27 years.

During the course of investigation it came on record that Sumit and Maninder Singh @ Manny have tainted past:- 1. Maninder Singh @ Manny was previously involved in total 5 cases i.e. 3 cases of dacoity (2 of Punjab and 1 of Chandigarh), 1 case of corruption and 1 case of rioting in Punjab.

2. Sumit was involved in 3 cases i.e. 1 case of Robbery, 1 case of Arms Act and 1 case of Rioting in Punjab.

195. 07.10.2020 03 Person arrested in snatching case Cracking the whip on the snatchers the team of Crime Branch headed by SI Neeraj Kumar under the supervision of Inspector Harinder Sekhon and close guidance of Sh. Rajiv Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime has succeeded in apprehending three snatchers.

On 6.10.2020 a secret information was received that three person who have snatched a mobile phone on motor cycle from the area of Police Station Sector-26, Chandigarh are roaming in the area of PS- Maloya. On the basis of this information three person namely Anil Kumar, Gulshan Kumar and Moh. Irshad were arrested in case FIR No. 149 dated 3.9.2020 u/s 379,356,34,411 IPC, Police Station-26, Chandigarh and FIR No. 151 dated 4.9.2020 u/s 379,356,411 IPC, Police Station-26, Chandigarh from them snatched mobile phones were recovered, even the vehicle used in crime was also recovered from them. Similarly on 6.10.2020 on the basis of secret information one juvenile was arrested in Murder Case FIR No. 140 dated 17.9.2020 u/s 302, 34 IPC PS- Maloya, Chandigarh. Juvenile has tainted past and has been sentenced for 3 years in murder case (committed in 2017) of Police Station Sector 39, Chandigarh as well as previously has been arrested in theft cases. 196. 22.10.2020 Two arrested in arms act In a major breakthrough the Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon , Insp. Satvinder Singh and with the close guidance of Sh. Ram Gopal, DSP Crime is able to arrest the Gang Members of Kali Shooter Gang and recovered 1 pistol, 1 desi Katta and 4 live cartridges. Brief Facts On 21.10.2020 a secret information that two persons who belongs to Kali Shooter Gang, also wanted in a case of attempt to murder of PS-Sohana were roaming in the area of Chandigarh to execute a major crime in Chandigarh. Acting upon this information a naka was laid down on the dividing road of Sector-50, near Sports complex near street light pole No.11, Chandigarh, in the mean time two persons sitting in Thar Jeep came there and were stopped, they tried to flee away, but were apprehended with the help of police officials. They disclosed their name as Summy S/o Sh. Sanjeet Kumar R/o # 87A, Shiva Enclave Phabhat, Zirakpur & Permanent address:- # 201 Jagat Pura Mohali PB and Shiv Shankar @ Sonu S/o Dulare Lal R/o Vill- Jagatpura Near Main Market Distt-Mohali Punjab. During the search of both one Pistol, .32 Bore & 03 live cartridges and one Desi Katta alongwith one live cartridge were recovered from the possession of them respectively. They were arrested and in this regard the above said case was got registered. 197. 28.10.2020 In a major breakthrough team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by SI Ashok Kumar, ASI Kanwalpal under the supervision of Inspector Harinder Sekhon and with the close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Ambasta, DSP Crime is able to arrest a interstate vehicle lifter who is involved in auto lifting from Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana & Delhi and other states. Profile of accused.

8. Harpreet Singh @ Smarty S/o Sh. Dhanwant Singh R/o Plot No.11, Vikaspuri Ext Chander Vihar, Delhi

On 19.10.2020 a secret information was received that a persons who is involved in case FIR No. 105/10.7.2020 u/s 379 IPC PS-Maloya, Chandigarh, and involved in vehicle theft cases of other states is residing in Delhi and presently very active. On this information a team of Crime Branch was comprised headed by SI Ashok Kumar and ASI Kanwalpal, who arrested accused Harpreet Singh @ Smarty from Chandan Vihar, Delhi and during the course of investigation total 9 vehicles were recovered on his instance, approximately value of Rs. 1.07 crore . The detail of the vehicles is as under:-

Sr. No. Vehicle detail Quantity 11. Inova = 1 12. Jeep Campass = 1 13. Creta = 3 14. Breza = 1 15. Swift Car = 1 16. I20 Car = 1 17. Esteem Car = 1

Modus operandi Accused Harpreet Singh @ Smarty has passed B.Tech Computer Science in 2013 and used sophisticated equipment and tools to lift the high end cars alongwith his gang members and further sell these vehicles in UP to scrap dealers in Rs. 1-3 lacs depending upon the vehicle. He admitted that he had stolen more than 200 vehicles. During police remand Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police able to recover 9 vehicles on his instance. Previous History Accused Harpreet Singh have a tainted past and has been arrested by Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi Police in the vehicle theft cases earlier many times. Presently 6 cases of vehicle theft are already under trial in the Distt. Court Chandigarh as well as he has been declared PO in one case.

198. 4.11.2020 Firing/shootout case busted The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Insp. Harinder Sekhon and with the close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Kumar Ambasta, DSP Crime busted the shot out case FIR No. 127 dated 20.10.20 u/s 307,34 IPC and 25/27/54/59 Arms Act PS-11, Chandigarh by arresting the accused Vijay S/o Sh. Chander Pal R/o # 3016, Bhaskar Colony, Sec.25, Chandigarh from Dhanas Turn, back side of Panjab University. From his possession one Desi Pistol and 18 live cartridges were recovered.

Brief Facts Vijay alongwith his associates Subham @ Billu R/o Dadu Majra and one another person planned to kill Sandeep in his shop at Sec.25, Chandigarh. On 19.10.2020 they all went to the shop of Sandeep on Splendor motorcycle No. CH01-5024 with carrying pistol, after reaching there Vijay and Subham @ Billu went inside the shop and opened the fire at the victim and third person was standing outside the shop with motorcycle to keep watch on public activities. After shot out all of three fled away from the spot. After committing shot out, Vijay joined one Patiala based Gangster Harvinder Joy and managed hide themselves there. While staying at Patiala, for winning the confidence of Joy and his group, on 25.10.2020 they alongwith Harvinder Joy opened fired at rival group of Joy in a political rally, Patiala, in which 3 persons got injured. Crime Branch has developed human intelligence about Vijay and collected information about his activities, which depicted Vijay is not satisfied as Sandeep was not killed in the previous attempt. As per the information received by the Crime Branch, he has planned again to kill the Sandeep and his relatives, but he was nabbed by the Crime Branch before the commit of the Crime. By this Crime Branch not only save the life of citizen of Chandigarh but also uprooted expected gang war in city as Johny (brother of Sandeep) S/o Jai Parkash R/o # 2411, Sec.25D, Chandigarh has also planned to take revenge of his brother‟s attack from Vijay, who was also arrested by the Crime Branch, Chandigarh with one Desi Revolver and 4 live cartridges from near Toilet, Sec.25, Chandigar, in this regard case FIR got registered u/s 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-11, Chandigarh was registered against him. One person namely Rahul @ Natta was also arrested who took the watch on the activity of Sandeep and given the information to Vijay before the shot out. Apart from this Crime Branch arrested one Jagdeep @ Jaggi S/o Jaswant Singh R/o Vill. Billa near Ravidas Mandir, Distt. Panchkula, aged 25 years from the back side of Solitair Hotel, NAC, Manimajra and recovered 1 pistol alongwith 2 live cartridges from his possession, in this regard FIR got registered u/s 25/54/59 Arms Act PS-Mouli Jagran, Chandigarh against him.

Reason for Firing: Vijay and Sandeep had an old rivalry as once Sandeep attacked on Vijay‟s father, beside this Vijay believed Sandeep was one of those person who conspired the murder of Khneya.

Profile of accused:- 1. Vijay S/o Sh. Chander Pal R/o # 3016, Bhaskar Colony, Sec.25, Chandigarh. Age 27 years. 2. Johny S/o Jai Parkash R/o # 2411, Sec.25D, Chandigarh. Aged 22 years. 3. Jagdeep @ Jaggi S/o Jaswant Singh R/o Vill. Billa near Ravidas Mandir, Distt. Panchkula. Age 25 Years. 4. Rahul @ Natta S/o Sh. Brij Pal R/o # 3278, Bhaskar Colony, Sec.25, Chandigarh, Aged 25 Years.

Vijay and Johny have tainted past and Vijay has been previously arrested in 15 cases of snatching, robbery and attempt to murder by the Chandigarh Police. He has been sentenced for 3 years in robbery case and presently on parole. Johny has also been arrested in one case by the Police.

199. 21.11.2020 Heritage chairs Theft Case solved In a major breakthrough team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police headed by SI Sumer Singh under the supervision of Inspector Harinder Sekhon and with the close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Ambasta, DSP Crime is able to arrest a person who is involved in theft of heritage chairs from Panjab University.

Brief Facts of case. Sh. Manjit Singh R/o Superintendent department of sociology Panjab University, Sec.14, Chandigarh reported that some unknown persons stolen 48 heritage chairs from Panjab University between 1.11.2020 to 3.11.2020. On 20.11.2020 a secret information was received that a person who is carpenter by profession and illegally dealt with heritage items will come alonwith stolen heritage chairs at Sec. 25, Chandigarh. A team headed by SI Sumer Singh was comprised and at about 9.00 pm when the team was on the back side of Panjab University road in govt. vehicle, one person was coming out from Jungle carrying two chairs and turned toward Dhanas, he was apprehended and he disclosed his name as Sarafraj S/o Mohd. Yamin R/o Shop No. 12, Ward No. 14, Baltana Distt. Mohali. During the course of interrogation Sarfraj disclosed that he collects damaged heritage furniture from thief and after repairing he supplies the same to other brokers and junk dealers. He was arrested in FIR No. 137 dated 20.11.2020 u/s 380 IPC added 411 IPC PS-11, Chandigarh and 18 more wooden chairs were also recovered on his instance from Jungle.

200. 29.11.2020 Recovery of 10 stolen vehicles In a major breakthrough team of Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police under the supervision of Inspector Harinder Sekhon and with the close guidance of Sh. Rajeev Ambasta, DSP Crime is able to arrest two persons and recovered 10 stolen vehicles.

On 28.11.2020, a secret information was received that a person who is involve in theft cases is roaming in the area of Police Station Sector-11, Chandigarh acting upon this information a team was comprised headed by ASI Kanwal Pal and arrested Rohit @ Changa from Light point power house turn Sector-12, Chandigarh with his arrest total 02 cases of theft i.e. Case FIR No.91 dated. 15.10.2020 U/S 379, 411 IPC PS-03, Chandigarh and Case FIR No.117 dated. 19.06.2020 U/S 379, 411 IPC PS-17, Chandigarh ware worked out. Apart from this 03 more vehicles recovered on his instance, which were taken into police possession u/s 102 Cr.P.C. Detail of recovered vehicles Sr. No. Vehicle detail Quantity remarks 18. Honda Activa = 1 Case property 19. Passion M/C = 1 Case property 20. Honda Activa 2 u/s 102 Cr.PC 21. Splendor M/C = 1 u/s 102 Cr.PC

Apart from this one accused Pardeep Kumar @ Pappan was also arrested in case FIR No.214 dated. 14.12.2019 U/S 379, 411 IPC PS-Mani Majra, Chandigarh, and case property i.e Activa Honda No.CH01BD7392 was recovered. Apart from this 04 more vehicles recovered on his instance, which were taken into police possession u/s 102 Cr.P.C.

Detail of recovered vehicles Sr. No. Vehicle detail Quantity Remarks 1. Honda Activa = 1 case property 2. Honda Active = 2 u/s 102 Cr.PC 3. Splendor M/C = 2 u/s 102 Cr.PC