LAHORE, Dec 9: Police claimed on Sunday having arrested two gangs of robbers from different parts of the city.

The first gang was busted in Dharampura. Police claimed that a man was going to Gujrat from Lahore airport when he was intercepted by a four-man gang. On information, a police mobile reached the spot and arrested the bandits.

Those arrested are ring leader Mushtaq, Akhtar, Aashiq Jat and Ali Akbar.

Police claimed to have recovered two pistols, a mauser, a revolver and two motorcycles besides cash and valuables from their possession.

The police said the gang members used to rob delivery vans of different companies. They always used rented motorcycles in their strikes. They have also been working as drivers and cashiers with such delivery vans.

In one of their strikes, the ring leader worked as driver of a van that delivered newspapers in different cities of the Punjab. His accomplices looted the van in Sheikhupura some five months ago. The gang had also looted Rs250,000 in cash from the van of a bread company on Infantry Road in Cantonment some months ago. Akbar worked as driver with the company for nine years. The gang made six other such strikes during the last one year.

The second four-man gang was arrested from an abandoned house in Khuda Bukhsh Colony in South Cantonment. Its members were identified as Saleem, Shabbir, Riaz Shah and Rafiq.

A rifle, two pistols, a revolver and 50 bullets were recovered from the gang. Saleem and Shabbir were proclaimed offender and wanted by police in different cases.