The joint teams of Uttarakhand and Delhi police arrested Ravi Kumar who had allegedly sprinkled chilli on armed policemen to facilitate gangster Amit Bhura's escape from police custody in Baghpat on December 15, from Delhi on Thursday.
The police had also recovered the white Scorpio used by the criminals for facilitating the daring escape, 9-mm pistol and two bullets from his possession. During interrogation, Delhi native Ravi Kumar disclosed that his aide Monu Tyagi was also with him when police arrested him, but he managed to give poilce a slip. He further said that 16 criminals were involved in the escape. Ravi said that he had sprinkled chilli in the eyes of armed policemen who were deputed to escort Bhura in Baghpat.
On the direction of Sachin Khokhar alias Monu and Navin, Ravi and Yogesh had sprinkled chilli on policemen while other armed criminals had fired shots in the air. They had also looted police of two AK-47 rifles and one self-loading rifle (SlR) aside from securing the escape of Bhura from the escorting cops.
Police claimed that out of 16, four criminals named Samar Pal, Babi Tomar, Prince Kumar and Mohammad Gauri alias Mohammad Saddam were already arrested by the teams in Delhi. Notably, earlier, a case under section 394 of IPC was registered against Ravi Kumar in Alipur police station in New Delhi in connection with a case of loot and he was earlier sent to jail by Delhi police.