Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India], August 22 (ANI): Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttrakhand Police arrested a criminal involved in a ransom case from Haridwar on Saturday.

The accused has been identified as Gorakhnath. He is a resident of Bahadurabad in Haridwar.

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As per the police, he belongs to the famous Intezar Gang, involved in various cases of murder and ransom. He played a key role in conducting the criminal activities of the gang while staying out of jail.

This arrest is one of the many that have been made so far under a month-long initiative being run by the Director-General of Police (DGP) of Uttarakhand Ashok Kumar which is aimed at capturing criminals with a bounty on them. The STF has achieved significant success in breaking the out-of-jail network of the gang. (ANI)

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