RAJKOT: A gang of robbers unleashed terror at the busy Maliya-Ahmedabad freeway for almost two hours early on Tuesday, concentrated on at least five vehicles and murdering probably the most truck drivers.
The gang intercepted the vehicles going to and from Kutch and requested their drivers and cleaners to get down. Some of the crowd participants then dragged the drivers and cleaners into the roadside timber about 200-300 metre from the freeway and tied their arms and legs. They had been then beaten up black and blue with bats and pipes and robbed of cash and mobiles.
The robbers centered the first truck close to Khirai village, about 7km from Maliya. All the vehicles had been intercepted and their drivers robbed in a stretch of simply 3km between Khirai and Vadharva villages at the freeway from round 3am to 5am. After robbing the drivers and cleaners, they let them off.
However, probably the most truck drivers Sukhram Ram Milan Pal, a local of Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh, who tried to resist them, was strangulated to death within the timber. While three vehicles that had been robbed had been going in opposition to Kutch, Pal was going in opposition to Ahmedabad with a truck loaded with ajwain seeds. Cleaner Sikandar, who was additionally beaten up in conjunction with Pal, lodged a criticism of homicide with the Maliya police station towards the unidentified robbers.
The truck drivers who had been thrashed and looted had been known as Jasa Kalotra, a local of Nani Virani village of Kutch’s Nakhatrana taluka, Bhima Harbham and Harbham Prabhu. They robbed Rs 10,000 from Kalotra after placing a knife on his throat, Rs 30,000 from Bhima and Rs 20,000 from Harbham.
The location the place the robbers struck is an overly busy freeway and there are many roadside consuming joints and inns located in this stretch.
R T Vyas, police sub-inspector of Morbi native crime branch, informed TOI, “The victims couldn’t give their description as it was very dark. But the crowd participants had been talking in Hindi combined with Gujarati. We suspect them to be some locals.”
Vyas mentioned that the police is scrutinizing photos from the CCTVs installed at a toll plaza within sight to get extra clues in regards to the robbers. “We also are wondering some other folks with felony background within the areas within sight,” Vyas mentioned.
Police mentioned that such terrifying freeway theft has been reported after nearly 10-12 years in this area. Earlier, such freeway robberies had been continuously reported from Morbi-Rajkot freeway and Wankaner, mostly carried out by way of gangs of tribals.
Police have additionally lodged a separate offence of dacoity towards the robbers.
The gang intercepted the vehicles going to and from Kutch and requested their drivers and cleaners to get down. Some of the crowd participants then dragged the drivers and cleaners into the roadside timber about 200-300 metre from the freeway and tied their arms and legs. They had been then beaten up black and blue with bats and pipes and robbed of cash and mobiles.
The robbers centered the first truck close to Khirai village, about 7km from Maliya. All the vehicles had been intercepted and their drivers robbed in a stretch of simply 3km between Khirai and Vadharva villages at the freeway from round 3am to 5am. After robbing the drivers and cleaners, they let them off.
However, probably the most truck drivers Sukhram Ram Milan Pal, a local of Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh, who tried to resist them, was strangulated to death within the timber. While three vehicles that had been robbed had been going in opposition to Kutch, Pal was going in opposition to Ahmedabad with a truck loaded with ajwain seeds. Cleaner Sikandar, who was additionally beaten up in conjunction with Pal, lodged a criticism of homicide with the Maliya police station towards the unidentified robbers.
The truck drivers who had been thrashed and looted had been known as Jasa Kalotra, a local of Nani Virani village of Kutch’s Nakhatrana taluka, Bhima Harbham and Harbham Prabhu. They robbed Rs 10,000 from Kalotra after placing a knife on his throat, Rs 30,000 from Bhima and Rs 20,000 from Harbham.
The location the place the robbers struck is an overly busy freeway and there are many roadside consuming joints and inns located in this stretch.
R T Vyas, police sub-inspector of Morbi native crime branch, informed TOI, “The victims couldn’t give their description as it was very dark. But the crowd participants had been talking in Hindi combined with Gujarati. We suspect them to be some locals.”
Vyas mentioned that the police is scrutinizing photos from the CCTVs installed at a toll plaza within sight to get extra clues in regards to the robbers. “We also are wondering some other folks with felony background within the areas within sight,” Vyas mentioned.
Police mentioned that such terrifying freeway theft has been reported after nearly 10-12 years in this area. Earlier, such freeway robberies had been continuously reported from Morbi-Rajkot freeway and Wankaner, mostly carried out by way of gangs of tribals.
Police have additionally lodged a separate offence of dacoity towards the robbers.
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