Panchkula: 2 arrested, 4 absconding a day after attack on police team

Panchkula: Even 24 hours after miscreants attacked and injured three members of a joint team of Panchkula and Delhi police in Sector 20 on Monday, the police are still groping in the dark. Police said they have managed to nab two men – Ranbir Rana and Habib – and have registered a case of rioting and culpable homicide against them and their four unidentified accomplices. Police said the case was registered based on a complaint by Younis Javed of Delhi Police, who was the investigating officer in a case of theft of 30 buffaloes registered at Ghazipur police station in Delhi. He said the Delhi Police had arrested a suspect named Aftab in the theft case and through him gathered information about the whereabouts of his partner in crime, Habib. He said, “We came to know that Habib was in Panchkula. So we launched a search operation in the city along with Panchkula police; However, when we reached his flat in Sector 20, Habib, Ranbir Rana and their four other associates attacked us. They also tried to snatch my pistol.
The police officer opened fire during the scuffle and injured Ranbir Rana. Police also arrested Rana and Habib. The other suspect managed to escape in a car, police said. Police officials said they have registered a case against the suspects at Sector 20 police station under IPC sections 147 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed for common purpose), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 189 (threat to cause hurt to any public servant), 225 (intentional resistance or unlawful obstruction to lawful arrest), 308 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to any person being a public servant in discharge of his duty), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), 342 (wrongful confinement of any person), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 379B (snatching) and 511 (offence punishable with imprisonment).