Tribune News Service

Panchkula, July 10

A court here has held three men guilty of looting a liquor vend at gunpoint at Rathpur Nanakpur village in Pinjore on August 6, 2018.

The Court of District and Sessions Judge Deepak Gupta convicted Mandeep Singh (29), Subhash (28), and Manish, alias Gurdeep Singh (21), under Section 397 read with Section 34 of the IPC and Section 27 of the Arms Act. The court will pronounce the sentence on Tuesday.

The convicts, with their faces covered, came to the liquor vend around 9 pm and asked its salesman Dinesh Rawat to hand over the entire cash from the cash counter.

The trio pointed their revolvers at the salesman. One of them fired a shot, which hit the liquor vend. Later, they entered the vend and took away Rs19,000 kept in the box, besides two liquor boxes and a mobile phone.

Before leaving, the convicts also threatened to kill the salesman if he disclosed the incident to the police.

On a complaint of Rawat, an FIR was registered under Sections 392, 120-B, 411, 506 and 397 of the IPC and Sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act at the Pinjore police station on August 6, 2018.

According to the prosecution, all three convicts, who were already arrested in connection with another FIR registered at the Pinjore police station in 2018, confessed to have committed the crime. The case was later transferred to the Crime Branch, Sector 26.

According to the investigation, the convicts had distributed the looted money among themselves and consumed the liquor stolen from the vend.