Rajouri police detained notorious criminal under Public Safety Act (PSA)

GNS ONLINE RAJOURI 
SHYAM SOOD 

RAJOURI, JUNE 01:–District Rajouri police on Thursday unader the order of the District Magistrate, Vikas Kundal detained one notorious offender/criminal/burglar under the Public Safety Act (PSA) namely Mohd Ashraf Khan son of Mohd Hussain resident of Kakora in tehsil Manjakote presently living in village Nerojal tehsil Thanamandi.

Since 2017 the notorious criminal Mohd Ashraf has been booked in 9 criminal cases registered against him at various police stations, including bus stand Jammu; Akhnoor (Jammu); Thanamandi; Gandhi Nagar & Trikuta Nagar Jammu; & police station Rajouri.

The important offences under which Mohd Ashraf was booked at various police stations are 307 (attempt to murder), 376 (sexual assault), 382 (snatching),380 ( theft in any building),353 (assault to deter public servant from discharge of his duty),& 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty) RPC/IPC.

The police said that during these couple of years, he always managed bail from the Court of Law. He is repeatedly engaged in anti-social activities including habitual of theft/burglary/criminal activities which is prejudicial to the maintenance of public order and posed a serious threat to safety/security of lives & property of citizens particularly in district Rajouri/Jammu.

The accused is a notorious fellow and a chronic offender who used to commit a number of criminal incidents of snatching & burglaries from innocent people in the past to meet his bad habits.

The execution warrant was meticulously executed by Inspector Azhar Hilal (SHO PS Thanamandi), PSI Mann Singh, I/C PP Chingus, and his team under the supervision of Imtiaz Ahmed, JKPS, SDPO Thanamandi and overall supervision of Amritpal Singh IPS, SSP Rajouri.

SSP said that “District Police is committed to serving the general public up to their desires to ensure a sense of security among them and to maintain peace in the district. In the future more action would be initiated against such anti-social elements which endanger the safety and security of peace-loving citizens,” said SSP.