Looter who posed as CIA cop traced to Bathinda

LUDHIANA: Four days after 4 miscreants posing as CIA cops looted Rs 6.5 lakh from a tile store in Kochar Market, the Bathinda police on Sunday night rounded up one of the accused and also recovered the black Skoda car used in the crime.


On Monday, the Ludhiana police reached Bathinda and arrested the accused. He was once brought to the city via past due night.


According to the Bathinda police, accused Mankamal Singh, 35, is a resident of Adarsh Nagar, Bathinda, and a liquor smuggler. They have known considered one of Mankamal’s accomplices as Tikka, his brother who posed as a CIA cop in uniform. The two others are from Uttar Pradesh and are yet to be known.


On June 14, 4 miscreants, considered one of whom was once in police uniform, went to the tile store of Manoj Kumar. While Manoj Kumar had long gone to his godown at Jalandhar bypass, his partner Dharmesh Kumar and a few workers had been present at the store. The miscreants accused Dharmesh Kumar of being keen on hawala cash alternate and claimed their seek advice from to be a raid. The accused started looking drawers and took out Rs 6.5 lakh. While fleeing, the accused took along Dharmesh Kumar and later left him near Passi Nagar Chowk on Pakhowal Road.


The 4, along side their Skoda car (DL-9-CQ-5738), had been captured in a CCTV digicam installed in Kochar Market. After the incident, the Ludhiana police shared the automobile registration quantity with the police of all districts. While taking to the TOI over phone, Bathinda SSP Naveen Singla said, “The police traced the automobile to 100 Feet Road in Bathinda with its owner Raju. Raju instructed that Mankamal had borrowed the automobile from him.”



DSP (investigation), Bathinda, Karansher Singh said, “Mankamal and his brother Tikka are liquor smugglers. They were booked in different cases. During wondering, Mankamal confessed that he knew Dharmesh and Manoj. He also mentioned that he smuggles illicit liquor in Gujarat and gets cash thru Dharmesh and Manoj. He knew that the duo was once keen on halwa transactions and stored money with them. We have handed over Mankamal and the seized car to the Ludhiana police who will further examine the case.”



Commissioner of police Sukhchain Singh Gill said, “Our police group is coming back with the accused. Further details can be shared after his wondering.”
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