The Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested two snatchers. Among the two snatchers, one holds a diploma degree in Civil Engineering while the other runs a bakery shop. Police said both the accused confessed to committing snatching to fulfill their need for drugs.
With the arrest of Raunaq and Sanjay Rathore, police also solved a case of robbery in Uttam Nagar where a woman was targeted. She was left injured while the two youths robbed her purse containing Rs 8,000, mobile phone, Debit and metro cards after injuring her with a blunt object.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Bhisham Singh said Rathore was arrested on January 17 following a tip-off while Raunaq was apprehended on the instance of Rathore.
The DCP further said, “ Raunaq disclosed that he hails from Uttarkhand. After completing his schooling, he completed diploma in Civil Engineering from a private college in Gurgaon,”
“During this period, he fell in bad company and become a drug addict and came in contact with Sanjay Rathore who was also a drug addict. He was admitted to a de-addiction centre in Dwarka for about eleven months but after coming out, he along with his associate Sanjay Rathore and other drug addicts planned to rob passersby in order to meet their requirement of drugs. Sanjay owns a bakery in Hastsal area,” added the DCP.