Duo robs man of ₹8k, arrested

GURUGRAM: The police on Monday arrested two people for robbing a labourer in Shivaji Nagar area, Sector 11, on May 10, of cellphone and ₹7,900 cash which he was about to deposit in a bank.

A video of the incident, which got recorded in a CCTV camera of a nearby hardware shop, was widely shared on social media, said the police, adding that the victim had not reported the incident and rather went incommunicado, following which police teams were formed to find the victim. The victim — identified as Suresh Mukhiya, who works as a helper at an iron trading company in Prem Nagar — alleged that around 6.25am on May 10 he was walking towards a shop for sending money home through a middleman, when two men came from behind and tried to strangle him. They grabbed him and snatched away ₹7,900 and his cellphone worth ₹6,000, and escaped, said the police.

A case under relevant sections of the IPC was registered against the suspects at the Shivaji Nagar police station on May 11. Preet Pal Sangwan, ACP (crime), said that the Manesar crime unit arrested the duo — Raju alias Kalia (40) and Vivek Tiwari (21) — residents of Laxman Vihar in Sector 5 and natives of Bihar and Jharkhand, from Gurugram Sector 7 on Monday. They confessed to the crime, Sangwan said, adding that they were produced before a court and sent to police custody on Monday.

In another incident, the police arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly snatching away a purse from a woman in Farrukhnagar’s Haily Mandi on Monday. The suspect — identified as Vijay Pal — is a resident of Farrukhnagar’s Khandewla. We have recovered the purse and belongings inside it, said the police.