The District Kapurthala police has successfully sorted out the case of a midnight attack by unidentified assailants in village Kamalpur Mothanwala on the intervening night of May 12 & 13 leaving behind 16 members of two families injured besides taking away their valuables by nabbing four culprits including their woman accomplice.
Disclosing this here today, Mr. Inderbir Singh, Senior Superintendent of Police said that after getting vital clues, a special search operation was launched in temporary shelters ( Jhuggis) set up along with the major roads in the district . He said that when a police party led by Mr. Harpreet Singh, SHO, Sultanpur Lodhi was searching such temporary shelters on RCF road, four persons including a woman tried to ran away but the police party nabbed them immediately. During the search of their hut a bag containing two pass books and two identity cards belonging to the members of victim families recovered. He said that the names of arrested culprits were Munim s/o Khabid, Ashiq s/o Nam Hasan, Raju @ Magic @ Usman @ Pappu s/o Faujdin and Zareena @ Dilshana w/o Faujdin and they all were residents of such temporary shelters in Dhariwal town of district Gurdaspur.
The District Police Chief further informed that during the initial interrogation, they admitted to have take part in the above said crime and disclosed the names of their 6 more accomplices namely Khusneed s/o Chappru, Lukman @ Chharu s/o Rajinder, Kulwinder @Gurdeep f/o Khushneed, Ila s/o Gaida, Aaftab s/o Kauru and Raju @ Vijay s/o Nahar Singh r/o Lohian Khas ( Jalandhar). He said that Police parties have been dispatched to nab the remaining culprits. He expressed confidence that during further interrogation there would be more revelations as they seemed to be habitual criminals. Mr. Mandeep Singh Gill, DSP, Sultanpur Lodhi was also present during the media briefing.It may be mentioned here that an FIR no. 104 dated May 13th , 2013 was registered in Police station Sultanpur Lodhi on the statement of Pawan Kumar s/o Maksudan Sahni r/o Kamalpur Mothanwala.