<![CDATA[PILIBHIT: On Monday, police apprehended five cattle thieves who were also involved in several other crimes. The accused have been identified as Raviulla, Ishtiaq and Munna who were the resident of Shahjahanpur district and Farid and Menhadi Hassan of Pilibhit district. According to police, when the culprits were loading stray cattle in their vehicle, Sonapal of Mohanpur Babura village tried to prevent them from their illegal action. But he was shot dead. In addition, police also said that the three members of the gang open fired at a police team of Bilsanda police on Sunday when they had signaled the accused to stop their vehicle and sped up their vehicle. Police chased them at the back and caught them and put them under custody. Besides, police also have recovered illegal possessed pistol and two live cartridges from their vehicle. The cattle was too seized. During the investigation, the accused revealed that they had killed Sonapal and possessed unlicensed pistol and cartridges. Among them police found that Munna’s name had been registered in 14 criminal acts and cases had been lodged against him mostly for attempt to murder and cow slaughtering. ]]>
