MOHALI: Four men in Nihang attire abducted a woman in her own car, pushed her off at Airport Road in Mohali, and drove off with the vehicle in the early hours of Friday. Thanks to quick work by Haryana Police, they were arrested from a gurdwara within 10 hours.The stolen car was recovered from the gurdwara compound in Shahbad town, 70km from Mohali. It’s rare that criminals disguise themselves as Nihang or holy Sikh warriors.“We were initially blind in this case. Our teams meticulously traced CCTV footage and tracked the vehicle via toll plaza cameras. The victim was later found abandoned near a mall on Airport Road,” said Mohali SSP Harmandeep Singh Hans.According to the complaint, crime occurred on intervening night of July 11-12. The woman and her male friend were returning from a film when they were intercepted by four men, dressed as Nihang, riding a motorcycle. They dragged the man out, piled into the car, and abducted the woman.SSP Hans said police’s concern was the woman’s safety. “Thankfully, she was thrown out unharmed and the suspects fled.” Multiple police teams worked the case. The coordinated effort helped trace the suspects.One accused, Shamsher Singh of Gazipur in Gurdaspur district, turned out to be granthi himself. The others in custody are cabbie Satnam Singh of Ludhiana’s Raune Kalan village, and two security guards from Jammu’s Nawanshahr – Nirmal Singh and Chander Mohan alias Jaildar. The SSP said they planned to sell the car in Delhi.
