The Delhi Police on Monday claimed to have busted an inter-state gang of robbers with the arrest of six persons, from different locations in the national Capital, a senior official said. Special Cell of Delhi Police, working on a series of unsolved highway robberies in NCR, on Friday arrested Ashok Nagar resident lokesh from Seemapuri underpass, who was involved in a loot of Rs18.5 lakh from employees of a motorcycle agency in Pandav Nagar in October 2014,” said DCP (Special Cell) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav.
“Following interrogation of lokesh, his two associates Rahul and Shiv Kumar were arrested by us from Wajirabad Road and several firearms including a revolver stolen from a retired army captain in Meerut, were recovered,” he said.
Close on the heels of these arrests, police further arrested loni residents Gulab Malik and Salman Malik who were members of the syndicate of the active interstate robbers, Yadav said. The accused Rahul, Gulab Malik, Salman Malik were involved in looting of a truck loaded with 12 ton of TMT iron rods parked near DC office in Kapashera, along with their three other associates on August 18 last year.