Alwar: Cracking a whip on criminals of Mewat involved in cheating and extorting people in the pretext of selling them various items through Olx, Bharatpur police on Monday have arrested seven wanted men who were also wanted by police in 14 states.
Police recovered Rs 3.50 lakh, seven tractors, three cars, three motorcycles, a laptop, seven mobiles, 43 bank passbooks, 12 ATM cards and four bank cheque books from the raid.
SP Amandeep Singh Kapoor said various gangs active in Mewat region are involved in cheating and extortion of people in the pretext of selling them various items through Olx and other platforms.
“On Sunday, we had raided Nagla Kundan village of Jurahara police station area when villagers attacked police and even opened fire. Responding to it, we lobbed teargas shells and used force. We arrested seven persons in this connection. Many have escaped and searches are on to nab them,” Kapoor added.
In the primary investigation it was found that accused were involved into placing advertisements on OLX and Facebook. “While a person as a buyer used to come down to these villagers on the address mentioned in the advertisement, the accused used to kidnap them and were into asking big ransom. In many cases people as buyers were thrashed and these people snatched away their valuables including cash and their vehicles,” Kapoor said.
Police said the accused targeted people from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra ,West Bengal, Assam ,Uttar Pradesh ,Madhya Pradesh ,Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan. “The arrested accused were identified as Azharuddin(21), Hassan (42), Ati Mohammed (48), Akhtar Khan( 38), Saddam (27), Shoaib (19) and Saddam (22 ),” he added.
Police had raided the village on Sunday in which many policemen got injured. On the other hand, villagers alleged that police thrashed women and kids in the village.