Delhi Police on Tuesday busted a gang of robbers, who targetted innocent people by impersonating themselves as police officers. Police also seized two luxury cars, one smart phone, one walkie-talkie instrument, IDs of victims, branded shoes, apparels purchased by the robbers using ATM cards of victims from their possession.
Vijay Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) said, “The accused offered lift to unsuspecting people in luxury cars and then introduce themselves as police officers and later robbed them.”
We received a complaint from one Dinesh Kumar. In his complaint, he stated that he was waiting on Pankha Road in Janak Puri and was going to Anand Vihar Railway Station.
In the meantime, a car came and offered the victim lift towards Anand Vihar railway station and the drivers introduced themselves as Sub Inspectors Rajbir and Satbir. The accused asked the victim to take out his belongings for verification.
The victim was so convinced that the accused were the police officers and gave his ATM card, mobile phone and cash to them. lately, they abandoned the victim at an isolated stretch and ran away with his belongings. The accused soon withdrew Rs 80,000 cash using the ATM card and also used the card for shopping.
According to police, the gang of robbers was headed by Rohit along with Pawan, Suraj and Deepak active in committing robberies or cheating in more than 30 incidents would come near DESU Colony, Pankha Road.
They committed more than 30-40 incidents on an average twice in a week.
The gang members used to impersonate as police officer and take all the belongings of the victims including, cash, mobile phone and ATM cards.
They would tell the person to give details of his ATM card for verification and later seek the ATM pin number too.
The victim would then be abandoned on a lonely road after being robbed.
They used to distribute the booty in equally and spent on wine, women, expensive branded clothing and massage parlors.
One of the associates Ashish is still at large, police is making efforts to arrest him.