Gujarat: Truck robbers’ gang that posed as women busted

VADODARA/ ANAND: Anand police has nabbed three members of the notorious Dafer gang, which was involved in looting truck drivers and cleaners on the Vataman-Tarapur highway last month.
The gang members used to pose as women, lure truck drivers on highways and then loot them.

Local crime branch (LCB) sleuths of Anand arrested Jamaal Dawood Sindhi, Rajnikant Shrimali and Ghanshyam Devipujak on Sunday. All three are residents of Gangad village of Ahmedabad’s Dholka taluka.
“They have confessed to carrying out similar loots at Karjan near Bharuch and Makarpura area of Vadodara,” said Anand district superintendent of police (DSP) Ajit Rajian.
“Their vehicles, knives and other belongings have been seized. They have criminal background and are confessing of their involvement in other crimes as well. LCB is carrying out further investigation,” he said.
Last month, videos of truck drivers and cleaners claiming that they were stopped, beaten and looted of cash on the highway had gone viral on social media platforms.
The drivers had claimed that some of them had stopped to answer nature’s call when the gang struck, tore their clothes and decamped with money. Tarapur police had later registered the complaint lodged by a driver from Vartej on the outskirts of Bhavnagar city, against six unidentified persons in the age group of 30 to 40 years.
The driver had claimed that when he stopped his truck at near Varsada village, a gang of robbers attacked and looted him of Rs 30,000 including Rs 12,000 cash. Claims of a total of seven trucks being looted by the gang were made.
The truck drivers had made several videos of their ordeal and made them viral on social media recently after which Anand police had launched investigation.