NOW HOP FREELY IF YOU ARE A MORNING WALKER OF EAST DELHI AS DELHI POLICE SPL. STAFF ARREST GANG OF INTERSTATE ROBBERS TARGETING MORNING WALKERS
New Delhi: With the arrest of three desperate robbers, Special Staff, East has busted a gang of interstate robbers targeting morning walkers and solved more than 50 cases of sensational robberies especially with morning walkers and recovered three country made pistols. The robbers arrested are:Lalu @ Aklakh ,Afsar Ali @ Dangawali and Nadeem aged 24,22 and 19year respectively and residents of Ghaziabad,UP.
The incidents of robberies with the morning walkers were on increase in East, South and South East Delhi and other areas. Two members of this gang used to came on scooter and accost any morning walker found walking on the deserted roads early morning. In the meantime two of their associates would come from behind on the motorcycle and drag out pistols. They used to rob the pedestrians and would fled away with looted property i.e. rings, golden chains, cash etc.
Taking into account the gravity of the robberies, the Special Staff of East District was assigned the task to nab the desperate gang of robbers. More than 10 teams of Special staff and AATS were deployed to collect information regarding these incidents. It was gathered through informers that the desperate robbers from village Pasonda, Ghaziabad (U.P.) might be involved in these robberies. A team under the leadership of Insp Manoj Pant and Insp Sanjeev comprising of SIs Vinay Yadav, KK Sharma, Arun Sindhu, ASI Ajaypal, HCs Manoj, Parveen, Pawan, Bijender, Santosh, Jagsoran Cts. Deep Chand, Ravinder, Anangpal, Shyam Singh, Saleem, Praveen etc. was constituted.
Surveillance and monitoring was kept on the activities of the criminals of Village Pasonda and informers of that area were also activated. In the mean time on dated 15.02.15 secret information was received that the gang will target Vivek Vihar and Anand Vihar area on dated 16.02.16. On this information more than ten separate teams in private vehicles i.e. Cars and Motor Cycles were asked to patrol in the area and to pin point the suspected criminals. On dated 16.02.2015 at around 05:30 hrs, a team led by SI KK Sharma in his private car spotted the suspected persons riding on a scooter and motorcycle. The team immediately alerted all the other teams deployed in the area and finally nabbed the criminals near Bus Stop Vivekanand Mahila College, vivek Vihar. After a lot of scuffle and valiant effort by the team three desperate robbers of this Gang were apprehended along with three country made pistols. Efforts are being made to recover the looted booty. Some more members of this gang indulged in robberies are still at large.
During interrogation they confessed to have committed more than 50 cases of robbery in East and adjoining districts of Delhi and U.P. All the concerned Police Stations have been informed regarding the disclosure of the accused persons.
They confessed that two members of this gang used to came on scooter and accost any morning walker found on the deserted roads. On the pretext of asking for address in the meantime two of their associates would came from behind on the motorcycle and drag out pistols. They used to rob the pedestrians and would fled away with looted property i.e. rings, golden chains, cash etc.
Source: Delhi Police (PR CELL)
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