LUCKNOW: More than the crime, the reason buffaloed the policemen. Four fledgling milkmen, barely out of their teens, planned a highway robbery-cum-carjacking and executed it in all their naïveté. Policemen spotted them on CCTV footage and tracked them down quickly. When caught, the accused were quick to blame it all on their buffaloes!
According to their statement to the police, Nijaj of Kakori, Abrar Ahmad, Aneesh Ali and Muin Ali, all of Para police station area and in their early 20s, were desperate to pay off a loan of Rs 8.5 lakh they had taken to buy seven buffaloes in Talkatora.
