With the arrest of two people, the Delhi Police on Monday claimed to have solved the sensational robbery case of hair 'wigs' worth Rs 25 lakh. Police have also recovered 100 kg of robbed hair, a country made pistol with 2 live cartridges and three mobile phones from the accused. The accused have been identified as Mangel Sain and Ajay Kumar. According to police, on June 27 three persons posing as customers had visited the victim, Jahangir Hussain's Wig shop and started inspecting the hairs.
"Suddenly one person put out a 'Deshi katta' (country made pistol) and overpowered the victim and his brother Tajjudin. They confined them in a room and then robbed 5/6 gunny bags of hair and cash Rs 30 thousand along with mobile phones of the victims," said police official.
"Acting on the complaint, police put the stolen mobile phones on surveillance which helped police to trace down one of the accused Mangal from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh and we recovered all three robbed mobile phones from his possession," said Seju P Kuruvilla, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Outer Delhi.
"During interrogation accused Mangal disclosed that on July 25 in the late hours, he along with Rahul and two other persons came from Uttar Pradesh in an Omni Van. Next day they met Ajay Kumar in Nangloi with whom they hatched conspiracy of robbery," said DCP.
"He also disclosed that the stolen hairs were kept with Ajay Kumar. Whereas Ajay on interrogation disclosed that the robbed hair are kept in laxmi Nagar area. Thereafter, the Police Team immediately conducted the raid and recovered 118 kg robbed hair from Ganesh Nagar, Pandav Nagar area. Police have also recovered one country made pistol along with two live cartridges on the instance of accused Mangal from the bushes situated in the side of Ganda Nala near Nangloi," said DCP.
"We have taken the accused for five days police custody. So far in our investigation it has come out that as Ajay who is also a master mind behind the robbery is a wig trader they might have planned to sell these hairs to wig traders in Delhi or ludhiana. The police are searching for the other accused involved in the crime. Investigation is still going on," added the DCP.