Guwahati: A team of officers from the Geetanagar Police Station in Guwahati arrested a total of three thugs on Tuesday for robbing a shopkeeper in the city and posing as members of the Anti-Corruption Branch.
Taking to Twitter, Guwahati Police wrote, “Adaptation from reel to real went topsy turvy! In what can be described as an awful adaptation of the ‘Special 26’ movie, a gang of thugs went bust after they were caught by a CGPD team from Geetanagar PS for posing as Anti Corruption Branch officials.”
The three miscreants were identified by police as Salauddin Seikh, a resident of Nalbari, Dhrubajyoti Sarma of Zoo Tiniali and Rubul Ali of Bhaskar Nagar in Guwahati.
“The gang, enacting as undercover cops, robbed a Pan Shop owner at Zoo Road Tiniali, alleging drug trafficking,” added Guwahati Police.
Meanwhile, the three suspects in the case have been detained and charged under sections 419 and 392 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), police informed. A case with the case number 259/2022 has been filed against them.
It should be remembered that on Sunday, the suspects robbed a pan store in the open in Zoo Road area of Guwahati.
They had pretended to be smoking cigarettes as they entered the store as representatives of the Anti-Corruption Branch.
They threatened him with accusations of drug dealing before robbing him of somewhere between 60,000 and 70,000 rupees.
They also abused the language when the locals captured them.