The Delhi Police has arrested two robbers, who had allegedly fired upon crew members of a Hindi news channel while they were driving past Barapullah flyover on June 9. With their arrest, police also claimed to have solved 20 cases of attempt to murder, snatching, robbery and Arms Act registered across the National capital.
The accused have been identified as Tayyab (23) a resident of Shahdara in Delhi and Shahid (20) a resident of Delhi's Kabir Nagar. Police said that there are two cases in which the duo had fired upon the victims when they did not stop their car. '
According to Rajiv Ranjan, the Additional Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, two cases were reported in June. "In first case, on June 5, the victim, an Ola driver, told police that he was going from IGI airport to Ghaziabad after picking up a passenger from there, at about 02:30 AM when two persons riding on a bike intercepted them on NH-24 near Khichdi Pur in East Delhi. They signaled to stop when the Ola driver did not stopped, the pillion rider on the bike fired upon them," said the Additional CP.
"Bullet hit the complainant in the left knee after piercing through the driver side car door. The complainant stopped the car and both bike riders robbed one mobile phone, cash, debit and credit cards from the passenger Sajid Akhtar on gun point and fled from the spot," said the Additional CP.
Similarly, on June 9, when the ABP news channel crew, including a reporter, cameraperson and a driver of ABP News, were on their way to cover a story, two bike borne armed robbers tried to stop their car and when they did not stopped the car, the bike borne assailants fired upon the crew members including the driver three times, but, the crew managed to escape from the spot with their car.
"Both the cases with similar modus operandi were transferred to Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch. During investigation, the STF scanned all CCTV footage available and identified the duo. After identifying the suspects, the police team started to look for them at all the possible hideouts in the areas of Western Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Trans Yamuna Area of East Delhi," said the Additional CP. "The team put together all the available clues and it was found that accused Tayyab was arrested in a year old kidnapping-cum-robbery case of Vivek Vihar police station on June 17. He was declared Proclaimed Offender by the court. He was subsequently arrested and taken on police custody remand," said the Additional CP.
"During interrogation, he revealed the names of his other associates who were active members of his gang and that of his co-accused Shahid, who has also been arrested in the news crew robbery case earlier this week," said the Additional CP adding that further investigation is going on.