The Ashoka Garden police on Monday busted a four-member gang of miscreants and recovered valuables worth Rs 10 lakh from their possession. These goods were taken away in eleven burglaries in the past nine months.
ASP Zone 2 Mayank Awasthi while speaking with the media persons on Monday said that the miscreants were nabbed after one of them tried to change sell the Canadian currency and was caught after information of miscreant was received by the police.
The currency notes which were recovered from their possession were stolen from an officer of forest department. From the house they have stolen Canada, Nepal and Oman currency notes.
The nabbed accused was identified as Jackey Bachale (21) and when he was questioned he confessed that he used to commit thefts and burglaries along with three other gang members who were identified as Faizan Khan (23), Amit Dubey (22) and Nazeem Khan (19).
The gang has committed burglary in Punjabi Bagh, Shahenshah garden, Ashok Vihar, Ashoka Garden and Pragati Nagar.
They would target nearby houses in their area.
Jackey was mastermind behind the gang who would assign the works to the gang members. The gang would identify the targets which were the locked houses and would commit burglary in the night and would escape with valuables.
Police have recovered gold jewelry worth Rs 8 lakh, five cooking gas cylinders, a car and a digital video camera. Except Amit Dubey the three have been booked earlier for different crimes.
Police claimed that more recoveries would be made and more crimes would be confessed in the further investigation by the miscreants.