Three members of a gang of highway robbers who used to loot people on the highway by disguising as women — by wearing women’s attires have been arrested in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, the police said.
A police team, whose members posed as truck drivers and porters, managed to apprehend the three individuals, identified as Megha Meena, Shankar Meena, and Soma Meena — all males.
During questioning, they confessed to committing around 15-20 robberies on the highway. When the police team noticed that a person dressed in female clothes signaled their truck to stop by showing a torch, the vehicle stopped and soon, the police surrounded the truck and nabbed three persons.
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Three others, however, fled the spot. The police have also recovered the cash looted from the people, along with weapons.
On May 21, a truck driver, Mastram Meena, lodged a case in the police station that on April 24, he was driving a truck from Udaipur to Morbi in Gujarat, someone wearing a woman’s dress was spotted while a man signaled the truck to stop with a torch.
As Mastram stopped, around 5-7 persons got into the truck, thrashed him and his assistant, and also looted Rs 20,000 cash, silver chain, purses, etc., and ran away.
Based on Mastram’s complaint, the police registered a case and began an investigation. The police scanned footage of 30 CCTVs and also questioned the staff of hotels and dhabas in the vicinity.
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