The Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested four members of an inter-State gang of robbers who targeted vulnerable victims, specifically people on their morning walks, women picking up their children from school and women coming home late from work. They were arrested from a park in Sector-19 Dwarka. The gang active in different parts of India would rent flats which they used as their base to commit crimes, police revealed Monday.

“The accused persons Ram Avtar (23), Rakesh (23), Rajender (27) and their kingpin Mangal singh (26), all residents of Shamli district, Uttar Pradesh, are involved in several cases of robbery, snatching and auto-theft all over India. In Delhi alone, 12 cases of snatching and vehicle theft have been worked out. Mangal is a proclaimed offender (PO) in six cases at Karnal and Bangalore,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Bhisham Singh stated.

“On Friday, information was received that some members of the gang of robbers would be gathering in a park at Sector-19 Dwarka. The information was developed under the supervision of Assistant Commissioner of Police Aditya Gautam led by Inspector Ricchpal Singh and a trap was laid to nab them.

Four members were successfully arrested with stolen motorcycles. Four country-made pistols and 8 live cartridges were recovered from their possession,” Singh revealed.

During interrogation, the accused persons told the police that Mangal allegedly formed the gang four years ago. “They revealed that they started committing robbery, snatching and auto-theft at remote areas in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. They took rooms on rent in the city and would stay there for few days and leave after committing a series of crime.

After that, they proceeded to their next destination and so on. In this way, they managed to avoid arrest by local police,” said the DCP, adding that more cases were likely to be worked out in the process of investigation.