After nearly a decade, Uttarakhand STF arrests notorious criminal
Hindustan TimesUttarakhand Police’s Special Task Force has arrested a notorious criminal wanted for over nine years for allegedly abducting and looting the general manager of a famous 5-star hotel chain, said police on Sunday. The accused, identified as one Gurmeet Singh hailing from Uttar Pradesh, with a reward of ₹5,000 from US Nagar police, was nabbed from Nanakmatta area of US Nagar district on Saturday night after receiving a tip-off from informers. Brajbhushan Gururani, sub-inspector, STF who was among the police team which arrested Singh, said, “He was wanted by the Rudrapur police station in US Nagar district for the last nine years in an abduction and loot case in which they abducted the GM of a city-based 5-star hotel at gunpoint with his gang members and looted him off his car and ₹50,000 cash.” “After the incident, he fled to Nepal with the victim’s car while his two acquaintances were arrested by the police. On his arrest from a hotel on Saturday night in Nanakmatta area, the police officer said that the STF had received a tip-off about him hiding in the hotel while planning to commit a big crime in state’s Kumaon region.