The Delhi Police suspects Haryana-based gang of robbers behind the lajpat Nagar heist. Investigations have revealed that one of the Rajesh Kalra’s employees, Sandeep, who was escorting the Honda City car, is the nephew of Ashok Doga, an extortionist active in Jhajjar and Rohtak.
Doga is currently lodged in Rohtak Jail. Police said that three Kalra’s employees, who were escorting the Honda City to a banks in an Hyundai i20 car, took a different route and it appears that they staged the robbery in collusion with Kalra. Two teams of Delhi Police on Wednesday questioned Doga but did not get any major lead in the case. The gang is involved in over two dozen cases of murder, robberies and theft and police have also booked members of this gang under the stringent MCOCA.
The police officials have also procured information on Doga’s associates including their numbers and their activities. Police recovered a slip from Wagon R car in which an address of Jind in Haryana was mentioned. The Delhi Police also recovered CCTV footage when the Verna car was stolen from Mundka area. However, occupants can’t be seen clearly due to dense fog.
In a related development, police have found the CCTV footage of two cameras installed in two houses in Kalkaji and Greater Kailash where they found that the criminals were trailing the Honda City car from Kalkaji and Greater Kailash. “The robbers’ car was first spotted at 8.54 am in Kalkaji and at 9.13 am in Greater Kailash,” police sources said. Investigation have so far revealed that the robbery was conducted by a professional gang from Jhajjar, Haryana and it also came to fore that the gang who has been involved in more than four such cases, using the similar modus-operandi. The gang of seven members had carried out a robbery in Bahadurgarh, a night before the `8 crore heist in lajpat Nagar. They had committed another robbery in Mukarba Chowk on January 26 and it was learnt that in both the incidents, they first hit the victim's car and then robbed them.
Police sources that the entire sum of about `8 crore belonged to Kalra, an accused in the cricket match-fixing scandal of 2000 involving the late South African captain Hansie Cronje.
Meanwhile, the investigation teams of South-East district on Wednesday accessed the call detail records (CDR) of 15 persons, including all the occupants of the Honda City car, employees of Rajesh Kalra.