With the arrest of five people, Delhi Police Crime Branch has busted the lukman gang which was involved in more than 100 cases of robbery and cattle theft from Delhi-NCR.
Madhur Verma, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) said, “We have arrested five people — Kamru (27), Parvej(23), lukman (32), Shahazad (21) and Abid (25) —and have recovered four countrymade pistols along with ten live cartridges, master keys along with house breaking implements and two stolen Tata 407 Tempo. In light of the increasing number of robbery and cattle theft cases in the national Capital, a team under ACP Sanjay Sehrawat of the Inter State Cell was asked to work on the cases.
The sleuths of the ISC were tipped-off that on the intervening night of June 30 and July 1, the accused people would come near Main Wazirabad. Accordingly, a trap was laid and the team apprehended five people while they are trying to flee in Tata 407.
During interrogation, the accused disclosed that for the past two-years, they have been involved in cattle theft. On further interrogation, they disclosed that they used to rob cattles during evening using Tata 407 and Scorpio, the DCP said. They also disclosed that the robbed cattles were handed over to a person named Manzoor in Ghaziabad in lieu of hefty money for slaughtering, the DCP added.
“During sustained interrogation of the gang leader namely lukman, he confessed to the involvement in more the 100 incidents of robbery of cattles and other articles from the different regions in Delhi, he said. They said that cattle are easy targets and easily disposed-off in cash. They fled the crime spots once police was commissioned.