A 20-year-old youth has been arrested for his alleged involvement in two armed robberies, including one involving a Thai national in Outer Delhi’s Alipur area. The accused, identified as Ankit, alias Gullu was arrested by the police on April 21 following a tip-off.
“On March 3, Suraphot, a Thai national, reported to police that some assailants robbed him off his robbed his ATM card and one iPhone at gunpoint. later Rs42,000 was withdrawn using the ATM card from various ATM booths,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (Outer) Sanjay Kumar. Ankit was identified by the police from the CCTV footage of the ATM booth where he used the victim’s card. As the police made efforts to nab him, he soon applied for anticipatory bail with a local court.
He had also applied for surrender, but had failed to appear before the court. Meanwhile, on April 21, police got a tip off that he was roaming around in the area on a Pulsar motorcycle. A trap was laid and he was nabbed.
During interrogation, he allegedly told police that he used to work as a fourth-grade employee at a school. Recently, he had married a girl out of his caste following which their families disowned them. As he was facing financial crunch, he started to indulge in robberies with his accomplices. He confessed that he was involved in another robbery with his associates in Narela area a week prior to his arrest. Search is on for his associates and police are verifying if the gang committed more robberies. Police have recovered a robbed motorcycle which belonged to their second victim — a dairy owner — and the iPhone of the foreign national.