With the arrest of three criminals, the Delhi Police on Monday claimed to have busted an inter-State gang of highway robbers active in Delhi and its neighbouring States. With their arrest, Police have solved 33 cases of robbery registered in last three months at Delhi, Gurugram and Panipat.
The accused have been identified as Mohammad Dulare (35) alias Dilawar, a resident of Outer Delhi's Bawana area and the kingpin of the gang while his associates have been identified as Amir Paswan (27) and Sunil Paswan (27), presently living at Delhi's Shalimar village and native of Bihar's Muzaffarpur.
According to Dr G Ram Gopal Naik, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Crime Branch, on February 10, one Railway Police Force (RPF) constable Ravinder Singh was waiting at Anand Vihar ISBT to board a bus towards his native place Meerut when two gang members accosted Singh and posed as passengers looking for a public transport to Meerut.
"Subsequently, the third gang member posing as a driver of Hyundai Santro car came there and they all lured Singh to share the car for Meerut. While on way to Meerut, the gang robbed of Singh's belongings after beating him up. After that the gang roamed around in Delhi with the victim by confining him in the car and they also withdraw money from different ATMs in Delhi," said the DCP.
"The accused further purchased jewellery from a shop in Rohini area using victim's debit card. In the night, at about 9 pm, the victim managed to escape in Bawana Industrial Area. The victim then approached the police and on his statement, following which as case under section 392/34 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Patparganj Industrial Area police station was registered and investigation taken up," said the DCP.
"During investigation, specific inputs were received that the gang members of Dulare who were involved in the incident were residing in Shalimar Village following which raids were conducted and three accused were apprehended," said the DCP.
"On interrogation, all the accused confessed their involvement behind the robberies in Delhi and its surrounding areas. Robbed articles were also recovered at the instance of the accused persons," said the DCP.