With the arrest of four people, the Delhi Police on Tuesday busted a gang of thieves who allegedly used to break car window to steal articles in cars parked at the national Capital’s Connaught Place area. Police have also recovered Rs 5 lakh, one mobile phone, 10 laptops, one revolver with two live cartridges, one arm license and many other documents from their possession.
The accused have been identified as Varun (27) resident of Uttam Nagar in Delhi, Vikas (19), Babu (34) and Kishore (25) all three residents of Budh Vihar Inderpuri in Delhi. According to Madhur Verma, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), New Delhi district, on the evening of December 7 a complaint was received in which the complainant said that he had parked his vehicle on Mandir Marg and had gone for some work in the area.
“As he returned to his vehicle he found the side window glass of his vehicle was broken and his laptop bag containing Rs 5 lakh cash, Apple Mac Book, one arm license and some important documents were to stolen,” said the DCP.
“Acting on the complaint a case was registered and specific input regarding the gang was received following which a trap was laid and all four accused were apprehended,” said the DCP.
“During interrogation, the accused disclosed that they used to target only the posh areas, top class busy markets, gold markets areas in Delhi and NCR where high level transactions are made and people carry handsome amount, jewellery items, costly electronic gadgets like camera, laptop, and mobile phones,” said the DCP.
“The accused further disclosed that they used to sale out the stolen laptops to one Satyendra who supplies that stuff in spare parts like display, ram, hard disk, battery, body cabinet, speakers, keypad, touch pad, DVD-writer at Karol Bagh and Nehru Place Markets.
They used to sale out the stolen jewellery items to Sandeep and Nagesh bothresidents of Madangir area,” said the DCP adding thathunt for the receiver has been initiated.