5 robbers from K’taka held, 2 injured in encounter

Kanpur: Jalaun police on Wednesday claimed it arrested five persons, allegedly involved in cases of theft and dacoities in different districts, after an encounter in which two of them also got injured.
All five persons belong to Karnataka.
The breakthrough came when the Special Operation Group SOG and Kotwali police teams acting on a specific tip-off tried to stop a car near the Factory area. Instead of stopping the car, the miscreants opened fire on the policemen. In retaliatory action, two miscreants were injured.
A constable also suffered bullet injuries in the encounter.
“Police have recovered cash worth Rs 1.55 lakh along with a Honda City car bearing a registration number of state capital (Lucknow) from them.
The police identified the injured criminals as Arif and Mohd Gaus, both residents of Mundeshwar Colony, district Karwar, Karnataka, while their arrested accomplices have been identified as Anees Shaikh, Asif Shaikh and Arslan, residents of village Mandi police station Mandi in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka. Police claimed the accused said that they carry out incidents of dacoity and keep changing their locations from one state to another. “At present they were residing in a locality in Barabanki district,” said Circle City Girja Shankar Tripathi.
The group was also involved in a few cases of theft in the district, said Tripathi.
The police also seized two pistols along with live cartridges. The injured criminals, besides a constable, were admitted to district hospital. Police said the accused have revealed the names of two more members of the gang and two more police teams have been assigned to nab them.