One held for robbing camera from youth

NEW DELHI: A 24-yearold man pursuing BA course, through correspondence from Delhi University was arrested for his involvement in robbery case reported from Tughlakabad Fort. Police claimed that the accused, who was arrested from Tughlakabad Village on Sunday, had robbed camera of an amateur photographer. The accused was identified as Vishal who lives in Tughlakabad village.

On August 26 at about 6 pm, a PCR call was received at Govindpuri police station in South- East District regarding the robbery of DSLR camera at Tughlakabad Fort.

The police team immediately reached the spot and met complainant Krishan Singh who stated that he was contacted through Facebook by one Prince and Rohit both for preparing their portfolio. Therefore, the complainant came to Tughlakabad Fort for photo-shoot of his client. Additional DCP (South East) Ghanshyam Bansal stated that while they were doing photo-shoot, two men came towards them and started arguing with them on the pretext that they cannot photo-shoot here. Both the alleged persons started assaulting the complainant and forcefully robbed his professional Nikon DSLR camera and fled the spot.

A team led by SHO (Govindpuri) Inspector Kuldeep Singh found that two men with photo camera were seen running towards Tughlakabad Village. A search was made which led to the arrest of the accused and camera was recovered from his possession.