Bahraich , Six alleged members of a gang involved in burglaries at houses and commercial establishments across several Uttar Pradesh districts were arrested in three separate police encounters, three of them receiving gunshot injuries, police said on Tuesday.
“When police tried to intercept the vehicles, the suspects opened fire, prompting retaliatory action in which one of them was injured, while three others were arrested. The other three arrested in the operation were Mahesh Chauhan, Mohit Lal and Anil Vishwakarma. The arrests were made within two days as part of a 10-day special drive against theft and burglary at the direction of the director general of police, Srivastava said. The first encounter took place on the intervening night of October 18 and 19, when a team of the crime branch’s SWAT unit and Khairighat police received information about suspects travelling in two vehicles near Vaivahi on the Nanpara-Khairighat road. Baundi and Nanpara police arrested two more alleged gang members in separate encounters on the intervening night of October 19 and 20.
“The gang was active in Lucknow, Prayagraj, Bahraich, Basti, Gonda and Lakhimpur Kheri, among other districts,” Superintendent of Police Vishwajeet Srivastava said. Two occupants of the second car managed to escape,” Srivastava said. Anil is a resident of the Motipur Police Station area, while the other three belong to Khairighat, police said. The three injured were admitted to the district hospital in Bahraich for treatment, while the other three were sent to jail after a court order, police said.
