With the arrest of six people, the Special Staff of East district solved the sensational Rs 17 lakh robbery which took place in East Delhi’s New Ashok Nagar area on October 3.
R Sathiyasundaram, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) said, “Six people identified as Sanjeet (28), Dinesh (28), Gulshan (22), Sandeep Ojha (24), Rajeev Mishra (20) and Navjeet Chaudhary (23) have been arrested.”
With their arrest, police have recovered Rs 10 lakh cash, bank deposit receipts Rs 1.67 lakh, one Tata safari, six mobile phones, two bikes, weapons etc. Police further said that they also received proteins supplements worth Rs 28,000 used by one of the accused for body building.
“On October 3, Sonu Kumar reported that the incident took place while he, along with his brother Ranjeet Singh, was heading from their shop in Ghaziabad to deposit Rs 17 lakh cash in the Axis Bank and Bank of Maharashtra,” said the senior police officer.
The officer said, “When the duo reached Kerala School in Mayur Vihar Phase-3, a motorcycle hit them. While the duo fell down, another bike came and they robbed Sonu’s bag, which was full of money, by pointing knives. A team under ACP Special Staff Videsh Singhal was tasked to solve the case. During the course of investigation, police teams scanned through the CCTV cameras and based on that, on Saturday, the teams raided the house of the gang members in Suleman Nagar and arrested them.”