Ludhiana: The police on Tuesday claimed to have busted two gangs of snatchers, with the arrest of five.
In the first case, Division 3 police arrested a band of three snatchers. As many as 17 cellphones and nine stolen two-wheelers were recovered from them. The police claimed to have solved at least 35 cases of snatching and vehicle theft with the arrest of Gagan Kumar of Dhandra Road, Rohit Kumar of Mohar Singh Nagar and Ashu Kumar of New Basant Vihar.
Joint commissioner of police (city) Deepak Pareek said, “They were arrested from Kirpal Nagar puli of Division 3 area on a tip-off. All three are drug addicts and started executing crimes to meet their drug needs.”
Property damage in Zirakpur. Tribune photo/RAVI KUMAR
There were problems with the telephone and internet connectivity as well. As per the weather department, the wind speed recorded at Bathinda was 92.6 km per hour.
Raj Kumar of PAU Bathinda Regional Centre MeT department said: “They are still chances of light rain/thundershowers along with thunderstorm/lighting accompanied with gusty winds at isolated places in next 24-36 hours in the region.”
Darevjeet Thakur of Basant Vihar said after the storm many electricity poles and trees were uprooted outside his house, causing blockage in the street, but no help was received from PSPCL even after repeated complaints. Later, we at our own risk cleared trees from the street and made passage to walk.