Delhi Police has arrested two members of the Bhura gang, including the gang leader, who had attempted to rob two brothers of their valuables at the Akshardham flyover a fortnight ago. In a bid to resist the robbery attempt, the accused- Izhar, the gang leader, Sonu Verma and one Dinesh pushed Hafiz out of the Three-Seater auto Rickshaw (TSR) and purportedly crushed Hafiz under the wheels of the TSR, leaving him to die.
In the wee hours of April 21, two brothers Nafis and Hafiz, natives of Uttar Pradesh came to Delhi in a bus to go to Faridabad. They had got down near the Akshardham metro station and boarded a TSR.There was one passenger and another passenger got into the TSR. A few minutes later, the accused pointed a knife at the two brothers and told them to handover their belongings, said police.
When both Nafiz and Hafiz resisted the robbery attempt, they were beaten by the robbers and thrown out of the sharing auto. The accused deliberately ran the vehicle over the head of Hafiz in which victim Hafiz succumbed to the injury.
Investigation into the case by the local police yielded no results. The Special Staff who was handling the case received a tip off that one Bhura gang who is involved in cases of robbery in Delhi-NCR. Accordingly, surveillance was mounted on their activities and on May 4, based on a tip off, Bhura alias Izhar and Sonu were apprehended from loni in Uttar Pradesh.
The senior police official said, "Both of them disclosed their involvement in the present case and revealed that the third associate namely Deva alias Dinesh is admitted in GTB Hospital. Both of them confessed their involvement and were arrested in the said case. Robbed Articles Mobile phone of Victim and other things had been recovered along with auto and Knife used in commission of the incident. During sustained interrogation, the accused Bhura disclosed that to fulfill his drug addiction, he took robbery."
"The accused revealed that they operate only in the late night hours after 1 AM and till 6 AM. They target such passengers who seem to be less familiar to Delhi and coming from Uttar Pradesh in private buses. They always quote less fare than their other TSR Counterparts. Due to this the passengers preferred them. Such passengers were later robbed by them near secluded places and near end of flyovers as near the end of flyovers the traffic moves fast and other vehicle drivers cannot notice them," said the DCP.