Karnal, Oct. 2 -- Police has busted a Delhi-based inter-state gang allegedly involved in drugging and looting a woman in Karnal and separately cracked a government ration theft case in Hisar, arresting five accused and recovering stolen property, a police spokesman said on Friday.

The police official said the arrests marked another phase of the ongoing statewide crackdown on organised theft networks and the illegal diversion of public property, with district units acting on specific intelligence and evidence.

In Karnal, the Detective Unit CIA-3, led by Inspector Ajay and comprising a team headed by ASI Rajesh Kumar, arrested three members of a nomadic inter-state gang on September 30 from the GT Road near Nilokheri Bus Stand, the spokesma...