Salim alias Salman Yusif Zarda (55), a life-term convict within the 2002 Godhra practice carnage who jumped parole in September final yr, was arrested by the Pune rural police in a theft case.
Based on police, tyres and tubes price Rs 2.49 lakhs have been stolen from a truck in Junnar space within the early hours of January 7. Truck driver Somnath Gaikwad (30) of Solapur had lodged an FIR of theft on this case on the Alephata police station of Pune rural police.
Throughout investigation, police discovered that comparable instances of theft of fabric from vehicles have been reported at Manchar police station in Pune and Sinnar police station in Nashik.
Additional probe confirmed the involvement of an inter-state gang of thieves from Godhra in Gujarat. Based mostly on clues obtained throughout technical investigation, police nabbed a five-member gang from Nashik on January 22.
The accused included Salim Zarda and his aides—Sahil Pathan (21), Sufiyan Chanaki (23) Ayub Sunthiya (29) and Irfan Durvesh (41), all hailing from Godhra. The Pune rural police recovered a tempo truck and different stolen objects, all collectively totalling to Rs 14.4 lakhs, from the accused.
After investigation by the Pune rural police, the accused have been handed over to Sinnar police in Nashik for additional probe into the theft instances.
Police inspector Dinesh Tayade of Alephata police station stated Zarda is among the many 31 accused convicted within the 2002 Godhra practice carnage case.
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“Of them, 11 accused, together with Zarda, have been awarded dying sentences and the remaining 20 accused have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial courtroom. Later, a excessive courtroom in Gujarat had commuted the dying sentence of Zarda and the ten others to life imprisonment. Zarda jumped parole eight occasions prior to now. He fashioned a gang for committing thefts and has been named as an accused in 16 offences in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra,” stated Tayade.
Zarda had reportedly jumped parole in October 2022, however was arrested by the Gujarat police in January 2023 for allegedly committing theft at a godown in Narmada district.
