Katra: Police today arrested a hotel’s employee and recovered Rs 46000 cash which stole from the bag of a pilgrim, here in Katra.
Police said that the pilgrim namely Charan Singh son of Pritam Singh of C-523, Ghaziabad appeared at Police Station Katra and lodged a written report stating that he along with his family members came to Katra on 13/03/2023 and booked a room in hotel namely Shri Krishna Niwas at Saraswati Chowk, Katra and left for Holy Darshan of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi on the same day . Upon returning, he entered his booked room in the same hotel and found that Rs 46000 was stolen from his luggage bag which he had kept at the same hotel.
On this, a case FIR No 79/2023 U/s 457/380 IPC was registered at Police Station Katra After this, police immediately swung into action and after hectic effort and by using human and technical intelligence,one suspicious person namely Sunil Singh son of Karnail Singh of Thanpal who was working in the same hotel was arrested and during interrogation, he disclosed that he had committed the said crime .On his disclosure, stolen amount i.e cash worth Rs 46000 was recovered within 12 hours of registration of FIR. The whole operation is led by SHO Katra Nishant Gupta under supervision of SDPO Katra Surinder Singh under overall supervision of SSP Katra Amit Basin- JKPS.
