Three youths have been arrested for their alleged role in a string of armed robberies in NCR region, police said on Friday. As per police, Shahbaz Ahmed (23), Upendera Gupta (29), Gautam Koli alias Jony (21), were apprehended by police on Wednesday near Government Boys School, Basai Darapur, after police received were tipped off. Upendra Gupta is pursuing his MBA from Symbiosis, Pune.
Police have recovered a pistol with three live cartridges, a car (used in robberies), four gold bangles, five rings, two gold earrings, two gold chains, a mangalsutra, two pendants and a Rolex wristwatch.
The gang came under police scrutiny after Narendera Bhalla, a victim, reported that on October 12 while he was sleeping, a youth entered with a pistol, hit him with the butt of the pistol
and robbed him of a diamond ring and took Rs2,000 from him while another person held his mother and servant captive in the house
at gunpoint.
Thereafter, both attackers locked all three inmates in the house and decamped with a laptop, a mobile phone, cash worth Rs25,000 and other valuables, police said.
During interrogation, the three persons reportedly confessed the offence apart from some other robberies in Delhi and Noida (UP). As per their disclosures, raids were conducted at their houses and recovery of stolen goods was made, police said.