Robbery case: Court acquits four

It was informed that four people involved in a shop robbery in Ludhiana were coming to Chandigarh along with arms and looted cash and that they were planning a similar robbery in Chandigarh too.

The police had put up a naka on October 30,2009 near a police check-post in Sector 42,where the accused were arrested after their white Maruti Swift car with a Punjab registration number,was intercepted by the police. The police recovered four revolvers,25 live cartridges and Rs 4,64,000 from them.

The accused have been booked under Sections 25,54 and 59 of the Arms Act. The Police registered a FIR against them under Sections 401 (for belonging to a gang of robbers),420 (cheating),467 (forgery of valuable security),468 (forgery for cheating),471 (using a forged document as genuine),473 (possessing counterfeit seal) of the IPC.

The accused were involved in a robbery at a gun house in Hoshiarpur in Punjab in April 2009.

Three members of this gang had been arrested by the Haryana police on June 5,2009 and 85 weapons,large amounts of ammunition and two luxury cars were recovered from them,said a police source.

The court ruled that the prosecution was not able to establish the case as there were loopholes in it.