It seems tall claims of Delhi Police to maintain law and order in the national Capital are exposed as yet again three armed men allegedly robbed a chemist shop and fled with around one lakh rupees in South Delhi on early hours of Tuesday.
According to Chinmoy Biswal, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South East district, a police control room (PCR) call was received at around 5 am regarding a robbery in Sanjeevni Chemist shop at Sarai Jullena village.
“Acting on the call, a police team rushed to spot. On spot, it was found that the shop was at a little deserted area. While in early hours around 4 am, taking advantage of there being no people around, three armed men came inside the shop, which opens round the clock, and took away the cash in the counter amounting to nearly one lakh rupees and also took away two mobile phones and fled on a bike,” said the DCP.
“Police teams have recovered CCTV footage of the incident in which one person was wearing helmet and two persons covered their faces with handkerchiefs to hide their identity. The robbers can be seen pointing guns at the cashier and fleeing away with the money,” said the DCP.
“A case of robbery under section 392 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered and several police teams have been formed to develop clues to nab the culprits,” said the DCP adding that further investigation is going on.