Pistol recovery from car leads to robber’s arrest 2 snatchers held from East Delhi

NEW DELHI: It was just a matter of chance that the two policemen present at Bhatia Marg in Uttam Nagar searched a car and found a pistol from the dashboard of the car. The cops inquired about the weapon which the driver said was illegal and he was arrested.

During the interrogation, it was revealed that the accused identified as Pawan Kumar was wanted in several cases of snatching and robberies in the area.

Kumar confessed that he kept the weapon to scare the victims.

“The accused claimed that he needs money for treatment of his son and that is why he arranged weapon to threaten the victim at the time of committing crime,” said DCP Dwarka, Anto Alphonse .

He was wanted in 10 cases of robbery and 16 cases of snatching. Police said that a woman was robbed on October 16, in the evening hour, an incident of theft took place in the vicinity of Vinobha Bhawe Enclave, Najafgarh.

The victim lady was going to her house with her child but accidentally her purse containing one gold chain weighing 02 Tola, a pair of earring and some cash slipped from her hand and two-person coming in a white scooty lifted the same and fled away from there .

NEW DELHI: On October 17, a victim was snatched of his mobile, leather bag which contained his purse and cash near Mayo School in East Delhi's Ghazipur.

Police lodged a complaint and secret informers were activated and footage from CCTV cameras was analysed. On October 20, on the receipt of secret information, a raid was conducted by police team and accused Alok (25), a resident of Mandawali, was arrested from Gazipur village and recovered some robbed documents of victim.

Accused confessed that he had committed this robbery along with one Deepak.

Accused Deepak, a resident of Mandawali, has also been arrested at the instance of accused Alok and one robbed phone was recovered from his possession.