The Tribune, February 14, 2005

2 held for attempt to loot trader
Our Correspondent

Kurukshetra, February 13
The police crime branch has arrested two persons who are responsible for firing and attempting to loot a Shahabad-based trader about a week ago. Stating this here today, the district police chief, Ms Bharati Arora, said that on a tip-off, a barricade was erected on GT Road, near Pipli, 5 km from here, yesterday and a motor cycle (HR-02-D-3127) was intercepted. After checking the documents, the police party found the motor cycle as stolen one. She said that the motor cycle riders, Harsimranjeet Singh, alias Lovely, a resident of HUDA, Sector 13, Kurukshetra, and Sunil Kumar, a resident of Vashishath Colony, Kurukshetra, were arrested.

Ms Arora said that during interrogation they told the police that they had stolen motor cycle from near the telephone exchange, HUDA, Sector 13, Kurukshetra, on the night of February 7. During interrogation, Harsimranjeet Singh told the police that he and Sanjeev Kumar, a resident of Marchehri village, hit with a hammer and fire at Neeraj Kumar Goel, a resident of HUDA, Shahabad, when the latter did not stop his scooter near his residence about a week ago. However, they escaped from the site of the incident leaving behind their country made pistol and the hammer when the people assembled there.