Delhi underworld is far from a man’s world
NEWDELHI: A 32-year-old woman who snatches cell phones for a living; a mother of eight who orders killings for money; a 35-year-oldwoman who runs Delhi’s biggest prostitution racket — the Capital has its fair share of women criminals.
Some of them, police say, are “godmothers” who run their own gangs with men working under them. One of Delhi’s most wanted is a 62-year-old woman, declared absconding in a murder case.
The woman named Basiran, whose six sons face around 99 criminal cases, had taken around ₹60,000 to pay off contract killers for a murder.
Shakeela, 53, is a “bad character” in the files of an east Delhi police station, with at least 21 criminal cases against her. The woman is accused of drug smuggling and running gambling dens where budding criminals meet. Ramanjeet Kaur, 32, dresses as a man, rides motorbikes and snatches cell phones across the city.
The biggest prostitution and call girl rackets in Delhi are run by women.
There are small-time women thieves who work in different gangs.
Over 90% of pickpockets stealing cell phones and wallets in crowded Delhi Metro trains are women, records show.
Of the 1,211 people arrested last year for stealing on the Metro, only 89 (7.34%) were men. Some women working with gangsters are used to honeytrap rivals.
From selling illicit liquor to running gambling dens and prostitution rackets, police records feature many women.