The real-life inspiration behind Bollywood comedy “Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!”, Davinder Singh, alias Bunty Chor, a highly-skilled thief, has been arrested by the Delhi Police from Kanpur. 

“Bunty Chor,” infamous for committing robberies at houses in high-profile and posh locations, had over 500 cases of burglaries filed against him till 2012 alone, police said.

However, only after Abhay Deol-starrer “Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!” hit the silverscreen in 2008, the real Bunty Chor gained notoriety.

In the past, Bunty Chor gave police from several States the slip.

A few years later, Davinder made a cameo appearance as a contestant in the popular reality show “Bigg Boss Season 4” in 2010, but was evicted after he misbehave with host Salman Khan.

Nicknamed “super thief”, 53-year-old Davinder was arrested from Uttar Pradesh in connection with two recently executed thefts in the national Capital.  Davinder started committing robberies since he was 14 years old.

The arrest was made after a case was registered based on the complaint of a GK-II resident regarding theft of three expensive mobile phones, purse, two laptops, branded shoes, wrist watch and Baleno car on the intervening night of April 12-13, police said. On the same day, a second theft was reported by another resident of GK-II, they added.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Chandhan Choudhary said CCTV camera footage of the area and the place of incident revealed that a middle aged suspect wearing a cap was involved in both the incidents. 

“The team started looking at the CCTV footage of the suspect and followed the route of the stolen car which revealed that it was going towards Noida via Alaknanda in CR Park,” the official said.

The registration number of the car was also ascertained through the footage, police said.  “During the course of investigation, police teams of CR Park followed the footage and tracked the car till Kalindi Kunj.

“Meanwhile, the team checked the locations of stolen mobile phones and found one of them switched on following which its location was traced near Agra.

“The team instantly moved towards the location which was about 150 km away from them,” she said.

The fastag number of the stolen mobile phone was kept on surveillance. Fastag deductions at various toll booths were monitored, police said. The team spotted the stolen car on the highway near Etawah in UP.

The team later managed to intercept the car at a toll booth in the UP’s Kanpur Dehat but the accused tried to escape. However, the glass window of the car was broken and the accused was apprehended, she added.

Stolen items, including three mobile phones, two laptops, five LED TVs with set top boxes, iron, printer and other ID Cards and purse of the complainants were also recovered from the car, police said.  The accused was arrested and the case property was seized, the DCP said.

Singh dropped out of school after Class 9 and commenced his robbery activities in 1993. Following his first detention in New Delhi, he managed to flee from police custody. Despite never owning a property, he favoured five-star hotels for his accommodations. However, he did have a weakness for luxury watches and fancy cars.