Thane: Gang Robber of the highway truck was caught after the Thaye-1 Crime Branch Unit Clause the racket kingpin on Saturday, following a robbery offer along the Mumbra bypass road in Thane, officials said.
According to Senior Inspector Krishna Kokani, Crime Branch Unit-1, a gang used to operate on Mumbra bypass often at night and truck Waylay drivers and take a fight with the pretext and finally looted them and criticized them.
“They mainly target truck drivers accuse them of driving rashes or hiking and then looting them in the middle,” Kokani said.
“On Saturday, the initial accused Shahbaz Sayyad, who is also a history of Sheeter, along with the four assistant Sachin Shinde targeted, a Dhule-based vegetable trader who was on the Vashi market trip.
Gang stopped the truck and began to argue with Shinde and then Attacking him.
When our patrol team saw a commotion, Sayyad instead tried to claim Shinde had attacked him, “Kokani said.
However, when the crime unit led by Pi Yogesh Kakad, was accused, they exposed the con, Sayyad tried to escape but the alert police managed to arrest him while his aides managed to escape in a dense settlement nearby.
The case has been registered by the Mumbra police below 395, 323, 506 of the IPC.