Delhi Police has arrested three persons who were involved in three robberies, snatching and auto-theft cases in one night. The trio were arrested in Delhi's Dwarka after a brief encounter.
"The accused identified as Anil (22), Ashwani (29) and Sahil (22) with their three more associates at a gunpoint had robbed the Nissan Micra car of Mukul Verma, an Army Captain posted in Siachin and also forced him at gunpoint to withdraw Rs 40 thousand from an ATM in Dwarka on Monday. The accused dropped him in Dwarka Sector-5 and took his car, mobile phone and cash," said Anto Alphonse, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Dwarka district.
"Acting on a complaint, the team analysed the CCTV footage in the area. The analysis of the incidents ascertained that Nissan Micra car robbed from the Army Captain was left by the robbers near Sanjay T- point after it got punctured which was left by the robbers following which they snatched another Maruti Ritz car from Mehram Nagar and they moved towards west district and again robbed Swift Dzire car near Madipur after leaving the Ritz car in the area," said DCP.
"The forensic analysis of the Nissan Micra car left by the criminals developed some finger prints of the suspects which was got matched with the data bank at State Crime Record Bureau (SCRB) and helped us to identify one of the accused. The trio was arrested by the police in Dwarka after a brief encounter," said DCP.
"We have recovered one robbed gun, three robbed cars, two country made pistol with eight live cartridges, six stolen bikes used in robberies and nine mobile phones," DCP added.
In yet another case of robbery in Dwarka a car driven by Station House Officer’s (SHO) son was robbed at a gun point by some unidentified person on Wednesday evening.
According to sources, the incident occurred around 6 pm when Dwarka sector 23 SHO Sunil Chauhan's son, Sagar Chauhan, was parking Hyundai Creta car outside his residence in DDA pocket in sector-19 when few unidentified men pointed gun at Chauhan's son and fled away with the car. "We have registered the case. We are scanning the CCTV's installed near the spot," said a police official.