The Delhi Police has busted an inter-State gang of highway robbers and claimed to have cracked robbery, truck -jacking cum kidnapping cases wherein 7,600 Karbonn mobile phones and an Eicher Canter were robbed. Four people have been arrested.
The gang used to stop their tempo in front of loaded trucks manned by a single person, pretending as if they have encountered an accident, said official, adding that then they would keep the driver captive at gun point and rob the truck.
Police recovered all stolen mobile phones worth Rs1.07 crore and the TATA 407 tempo which were used by the accused in the commission of their crimes.
On the interrogation of the accused it was revealed that they were involved in many other cases of robbery and theft and also certain cases of Arms Act.
The complainant Santosh (driver of the Eicher Canter of M/s Supreme Tempo Service), stated that in the intervening night of May18 and 19, while he was driving his tempo loaded with 7,600 Karbonn mobile phones from Okhla Industrial area to Zirakpur, when he reached on outer Ring road near Burari flyover, a tempo TATA 407 waylaid his Canter and two persons came out of the tempo and pretended it to be an accident.
When he got down, they overpowered and abducted him, tied his hands and dumped him in their tempo. One of their associates took control of his Canter loaded with the valuables and drove away. later on at about 6.30 am, they dumped him in Mundka area and left his Canter abandoned in the nearby area.
"A team was constituted to crack the case. On the basis of information all the four accused persons identified as Sanjay, Mohammed Salman, Sarvan Kumar and Salman were arrested," said Deputy Commissioner of Police, North district, Jatin Narwal. "At the time of robbery, the accused did not know about the robbed items. After seeing huge number of mobiles, they decided to dispose them in neighbouring States by looking for potential receivers," the DCP added.