bareilly a 20yearold bsc first year student at a college here aman patel allegedly executed a robbery to fund his girlfriends abortion patel along with his friends pawan kumar and anurag sharma allegedly formed a gang stole a bike and snatched mobile phones and purses from citizens police arrested them and recovered some of the looted itemsan fir was lodged at kotwali police station a few days back regarding the theft of a bike the victim informed us that he saw a youth driving his bike near lalphatak we asked him to inform us if he saw the bike again on his information we caught pawan kumar from lalphatak after which we arrested aman patel and anurag sharma said city superintendent of police sp sameersaurabh talking to toias many thefts and robberies had taken place recently we conducted a thorough interrogation of the three men when asked why he committed the crime patel confessed that his girlfriend was pregnant and he wanted money to help her get an abortion the sp addedpatel a student of a private college in the city told police that since he could not ask for money from his family to terminate his 19yearold girlfriends pregnancy which was in the third month he decided to form a gang with the two other youths who he had met earlier the girl lives in nawabganj and is a ba first year student as it was their private matter we did not get into more details regarding their relationship the police official saidduring interrogation the other youth pawan kumar who is pursuing llb from another private college of the city said that he had spent the rs 40000 given by his family for the college fee on other expenses and needed money to pay the fees the third youth anurag sharma joined the gang just to maintain his lavish lifestyle police said apart from stealing the bike the gang allegedly snatched two purses from women on two occasions both the purses contained mobile phones and cash while one had a few clothes as well police have recovered the bike and two mobile phones from their possession