Bikers followed her from rly station: Cops

NEWDELHI:AT least 100 police personnel from special cell and crime branch, divided in 20 teams, have fanned out across the city to locate and scan CCTV footage to nab the two men involved in the case of Damyanti Ben Modi.

An officer privy to the probe said CCTV footage so far shows the two scooter riders following the woman and her family from outside Old Delhi Railway station for almost 15 minutes. The suspects in the case were captured on multiple CCTVS installed on the routes that they took before and after the crime.

Saturday’s snatching was one of the rare cases where Delhi Police had formed so many teams, with almost the entire north district police force being pressed into action.

Police said that they had rounded up more than 50 suspects so far. They also claimed that the suspects had been identified and one of them was from central Delhi while the other may be a juvenile.

The place where Damyanti’s bag was snatched was covered by at least six CCTVS. Locals said the street sees the presence of a number of police personnel, because of two schools that are adjacent to the crime scene and the movement of the L-G’S motorcade.

“Snatching incident on this road is not something we often hear of. It’s because the locality is posh and the residence of Delhi’s L-G and chief minister is not too far. We often seen police patrolling the neighbourhood on motorcycles and vans. But the way the woman’s bag was snatched certainly makes us feel unsafe,” said Raman Singh, a taxi operator in the neighbourhood.

Damyanti Ben Modi’s handbag containing around Rs 56,000, two cellphones, debit cards, and original IDS, was snatched by the two men outside Shree Delhi Gujarati Samaj building in high-security Civil Lines area, barely 300 metres away from the L-G’S residence.

Investigators probing Saturday’s snatching case said that more than 200 CCTV cameras installed between the crime scene and Old Delhi railway station were scanned.

“The suspects followed the auto and fled with the woman’s bag. Her stolen phones were put on surveillance. The last location of one of her phone was in Paharganj. It seems that the suspects switched off the phones in that area,” said an investigator.