Five armed goons allegedly barged inside a courier shop and robbed off Rs 3,50,000 at gunpoint in North Delhi’s lahori Gate area on Monday afternoon. As the accused fled, the police team patrolling in the area saw them and countered them.
Three of them managed to flee but the other two were arrested by the police. The accused fired several rounds at the cops who even retaliated but nobody was injured.
“The accused have been identified as Pradeep (22), resident of Baghpat and Satpal (32), resident of Aligarh. Pradeep has previous involvements in 11 cases of robbery, dacoity and attempt to murder. A revolver, pistol, Rs 2 lakh, live rounds, doctor tape, rope and a the robbed motorcycle were recovered from them,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Madhur Verma.
According to the police the incident took place around 3:30pm in shop number 4457 in Vishnu Bazaar area. The armed assailants barged inside the courier shop ‘Patel Soma Bhai Kanchan lal’. The attackers first thrashed the gunman who was deployed outside the shop and over-powered him. They then entered the shop and looted the cash stored in the locker of the shop and fled the spot. While three of them escaped through a different route, the two others were running towards the main road. They reached near the Novelty Cinema and tried to start their motor-cycle.
Their motor-cycle did not start and two beat police personnel who were on duty found their movement suspicious. Head Constable Praveen and Constable Jitendra who were on their bike questioned them. The accused started running. The cops trailed them as they ran through the lanes. The accused men fired around five rounds on the police officials. They also robbed another motorcycle at gun point to escape from the clutches of the police. “The cops fired rounds at them in retaliation and after a brief encounter the accused were nabbed as they slipped from the motorcycle after the rounds were fired,” said a police official. A suitable reward/recognition would be given for the work by the police officials. A case under appropriate sections has been registered at lahori Gate police station.