UP Photographer’s Looted Camera, Lens Worth 5 Lakh Recovered, 3 Arrested
An FIR has been lodged in opposition to them and extra lawsuits had been underway, the police mentioned.
Noida:
Gautam Buddh Nagar police on Sunday recovered the digital camera and lens value Rs five lakh that had been robbed from a flora and fauna photographer within the Dhanauri Wetlands on August 22 and arrested 3 scholars concerned within the act, officers mentioned.
The accused are magnificence 12 scholars and two of them are elderly 18 whilst one in 19 they usually reside in adjacent Bulandshahr district, they mentioned.
Further Deputy Commissioner of Police, Better Noida, Vishal Pandey mentioned the accused had overpowered flora and fauna photographer Narinder Kohli and looted his digital camera, lens and different equipment at gunpoint on August 22.
Despite the fact that, an image of the trio used to be captured in a car-mounted digital camera of the sufferer, the police officer mentioned the case used to be difficult because the accused had their faces coated and the one really extensive lead that they had used to be their motorbike that had “Jat” inscribed on its entrance in purple and blue colors.
“The phrase ”Jat” used to be written on their TVS Apache motorbike and we checked round 150 such motorcycles within the area, were given registration main points checked, amongst others,” ADCP Pandey instructed newshounds.
A couple of police groups engaged within the case performed searches in close by villages and cities, together with in neighbouring district, however the leap forward within the prime profile case got here from Fb.
“We had been additionally tracking social media, together with Twitter and Fb, amongst different platforms for a lead. We got here throughout an image on Fb by which an Apache motorcycle used to be noticed with ”Jat” inscribed on its entrance aspect in purple and blue colors,” ADCP Pandey mentioned.
“This is how the culprits had been recognized and traced. The motorcycle, the firearm used within the crime had been recovered whilst 100 in step with cent restoration has been ensured within the type of the looted pieces – the digital camera, its lens and equipment,” he mentioned.
The accused had been recognized as Deepak, Pramod and Deependra.The motorbike belongs to Deepak, the officer mentioned.
The extra DCP mentioned Kohli, who had long gone to the Dhanauri Wetlands to paintings on a documentary in conjunction with any other photographer, is a famend artist and Police Commissioner Alok Singh used to be additionally tracking the case.
A praise of Rs 25,000 used to be additionally introduced resulting in the arrest of the culprits within the wake of the incident, he added.
ADCP Pandey mentioned the 3 scholars from Bulandshahr had been visiting a pal of theirs in Dhanauri village for a birthday celebration and had already deliberate to rob any person whilst going again.
“They knew that photographers with dear cameras come to the Dhanauri Wetlands and had deliberate to rob any person, hoping to make some simple and fast cash,” he mentioned.
“3 of them had been on the crime scene whilst their fourth spouse used to be a part of the making plans however now not provide on the web page,” he added.
