Robbers posing as cops held

gang of robbers who wore khaki uniform and posed as policemen to rob people in Delhi has been busted, police said on Thursday. Their latest heist was on last Saturday when they targeted jewellers in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar and made away with their car and silvery jewellery worth over Rs 17 lakh.

While three men involved in the robbery have been arrested, their two associates remain on the run. Having recovered some of the robbed jewellery, police said they were hopeful of recovering much of the rest.

These robbers relied on people’s fear of policemen to execute their robberies. Each member of this gang would be dressed in police uniforms and would travel in two different cars, an Ertiga and an Elantra.

Once they would choose a vehicle as their target, they would chase and intercept it. Then posing as policemen, they would begin checking the vehicle’s documents. As soon as they would sense that the vehicle’s occupants were relaxed, they would seize the opportunity to enter the vehicle and abduct them at gunpoint, said Ram Gopal Naik, DCP (crime).

The kidnapped persons would then be separated and loaded into the three different vehicles before being robbed. They would then be thrown out at an isolated stretch.

In their latest robbery on Saturday, they had intercepted a Honda City car near Star City Mall in Mayur Vihar. After robbing their car and the silver jewellery items, they threw the jewellers on the roadside.