HIGH- END MOBILE PHONE THIEVES ARRESTED
Two snatchers, who used to target high- end mobiles to raise funds for living a good life, landed in police custody. The duo was arrested from Outer Delhi’s Mangolpuri area.
The police said that one of the accused, Amir Siddique, told the police that they intensified their criminal activities because he was in dire need of money to arrange finance for the marriage of his sister. With their arrest, over a dozen cases of snatching were resolved.
The duo ran out of luck on December 15 when the police received a tip- off that one of them would come along with his friend Sagar Singh at BBlock in Mangolpuri to sell the stolen mobile phones. A trap was laid and the duo was nabbed by the team.
During questioning, accused Sagar stated that he and Amir had stolen the two- wheeler, from Rohini area, that they were riding. The facts of the stolen two- wheeler were later verified.
Further questioning revealed that they indulged in snatching to maintain a lavish and materialistic life to influence the people around them.
However, accused Aamir also added that he was in dire need of money as he needed to arrange finance for the marriage of his sister. The Delhi Transport Corporation ( DTC) loses around 5,000 trips every day due to congestion and encroachments on roads, leading to a monthly loss of about ` 9 crore. The city’s public transporter is under fire from different quarters over its depleting fleet of buses and operational inefficiency.
“We lose 5,000 of the scheduled 38,000 trips per day because our buses get stuck in traffic jams owing to congestion and encroachments on the city roads. We incur a loss of ` 30 lakh per day due to the missed trips,” a senior DTC officer said.
The financially ailing transport body runs a fleet of around 3,800 buses in the national capital. The daily earnings of DTC come to around ` 2.5 crore. There are many roads in the city where heavy encroachment forces the buses to crawl and waste time and fuel, thus affecting the operational costs.
“Most parts of Trans Yamuna, like Shahdara, Silampur, and border areas like Kapashera and Nangloi, are heavily congested due to unauthorised encroachments,” said the official.
The Delhi Transport Corporation is working on procurement of 1,000 more buses to boost its fleet. However, the authorities also need to work on the problem of encroachments on roads to make the buses run smoothly.