Gang of Bag Lifter Busted and Lady Gang Leader Arrested

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SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT

Dated: 10.10.2012

Gang of bag lifter busted and lady gang leader arrested

With the arrest of Sharda W/o Hari Chandra R/o D-1/132 Madangir Ambedkar Nagar New Delhi, (2) Kanna@ Aadi S/o Ganesh R/o C-1/1020 Madangir Ambedkar Nagar Delhi Delhi (3) Rahul S/o Anil R/o C-1 1020 Madangir Ambedkar Nagar Delhi Delhi (4) Sachin S/o Lakhan R/o D-1/132 Madangir Ambedkar Nagar New Delhi, (5) Kamal S/o Magendran R/o H.N. 133 CPU Block Madangir Ambedkar Nagar Delhi Delhi (6) Baadal S/o Ramdas R/o D-1/132 Madan Gir Ambedkar Nagar Delhi and (7) Ashok Kumar S/o Deputy Singh R/o D-5 Gali No 1 Behaind Mehra Petrol Pump Badar Pur Delhi, South East Distt Police has busted the gang of bag lifter and recovered cash Rs 4,90,000/-, Three laptops, Apple I pad , Hard Dist, Screw drivers, Gulel. Two camera.

Details of case:

There were spate of bag lifting in the area of PS Okhla Indl Area and on 08/10/12, two cases were reported at PS Okhla Indl Area vide Case FIR No 342/12 U/s 379 IPC and Case FIR No 344/12 u/s 379 IPC wherein one lac 1,27,000/- and two laptop, were stolen. Similarly, a case vide FIR No 369/12 u/s 379 IPC was also registered at PS Amar Colony, wherein two laptops were stolen. Keeping in view of gravity of the situation, staff was deployed on Anandmai Marg. On 09/10/11, one Kunal Bahl S/o Sunil Bahl R/o DD-1 Kalkaji Extn Delhi reported that he was coming in his Chevrolet Aveo Car and near Kalkaji Depo, two persons threw paint on his car and when he came to see, one of them lifted the bag containing Rs 4.5 lacs.

Investigation:

To crack the case and nail down the criminal, Immediately, HC Jitender got a tip off that the bag lifter who has recently lifted the bag containing 4.5 lacs may be caught in Madangir Ambedkar. A team consisting SI Sanjay Bhatt I/C PP Okhla Indl. Estate, HC Jitendra , HC Pradeep, HC Rajesh, Ct Ravindra, Ct Sudhir, Ct Prem Sundar was constituted under the supervision of Insp VKPS Yadav SHO/OIA. The team swung into action and on the secret information of informer, apprehended Kanna and Sachin in Swift Car No DL-8C-NA 8042 in Madangir Area and recovered Rs one lacs from them. On their instance the gang leader Sharda was also arrested from her residence and Rs 2 lacs, one I Pad, one Hard Disc were also recovered from her house. Further accused Kamal, Baadal, and Rahul were also arrested and Rs 1.5 lacs were also recovered. On their instance, receiver of laptos Mr Ashok Kumar was also arrested and three laptops were also recovered from his shop at Nehru Place.

The investigation revealed that the Gang leader is Sharda resident of Madangir and she made a gang with aforesaid accused persons. They were expert in bag lifting and they have the different modus operandi to commit the crime and they put the oil on the engine of the car or t knock the door and divert the attention of driver or puncture the tyre. They also broke the glass of car with Gulel and commit the crime within the minutes

Cases solved :

(1) Case FIR No 233/12 U/s 379 IPC PS OIA Delhi (2) Case FIR No 238/12 U/s 379 IPC PS OIA Delhi (3) Case FIR No 224/12 U/s 379 IPC PS OIA Delhi (4) Case FIR No 266/12 U/s 379 IPC PS OIA Delhi (5) Case FIR No 298/12 U/s 379 IPC PS OIA Delhi (6) Case FIR No 314/12 U/s 379 IPC PS OIA Delhi (7) Case FIR No 331/12 U/s 379 IPC PS OIA Delhi (8) Case FIR No 330/12 U/s 379 IPC PS OIA Delhi (9) Case FIR No 342/12 U/s 379 IPC PS OIA Delhi (10) Case FIR No 345/12 U/s 379 IPC PS OIA Delhi (11) Case FIR No 346/12 U/s 379 IPC PS OIA Delhi (12) Case FIR No 369/12 U/s 379 IPC PS AMAR COLONY Delhi

Recovery:

(1) Cash Rs 4,90,000/- (2) Three laptops, (3) Apple I pad , (4) Hard Disk, (5) Two camera. (5) Screw drivers, (6) Gulel.

(Ajay Chaudhry) Addl. Commissioner of Police, South-East District: New Delhi

10th October, 2012

PRESS RELEASE CENTRAL DISTRICT

HIGH PROFILE CHEAT A SRI LANKAN NATIONAL ARRESTED: SEVERAL UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS CHEATED ON THE PROMISE OF GETTING JOBS IN MALAYSIA

With the arrest of one Dissa Nayak @ Tushar, aged about 42 years s/o D.M. Shekhar r/o WZ – 20 B, 4 th Floor, Aspat Pur Ganj, Janakpuri, Delhi (Permanent Address: c/o Padmini Hearth, Dampandiya, Yakwila, North West Province, Sri Lanka), Central District police has arrested a cheat who had cheated several unemployed youths on the pretext of providing them jobs with a handsome salary in Malaysia. The accused person had collected several lakh of rupees from the gullible youths by charging them between Rs. 1,00,000/- to 2,00,000/- for the promised jobs. This racket was being run for the last one year.

TEAM AND THE INCIDENT

A team consisting of Inspr. Suresh Kaushik, SHO/Paharganj, SI Rakesh and Ct. Ranvir was constituted under the close supervision of Sh. Anil Kapoor, ACP/Paharganj, Central District.

On 01-10-2012, one Ms. Kiran d/o Sh. Hari Lal Gaur r/o Vill. Sakrapar, Post & PS Devaria (U.P.) gave a complaint at PS Pahar Ganj alleging that alleged Dissa Nayak @ Tushar is involved in cheating unemployed youths on the promise of sending them abroad. After conducting an initial enquiry, on the statement of the complainant, a case vide FIR No. 206/12 u/s 420 IPC was registered at P.S. PaharGanj, Central District, Delhi.

INVESTIGATION/INTERROGATION

During the course of investigation, on 09-10-2012, accused Dissa Nayak @ Tushar was called by the complainant at Munje Chowk for collecting an amount to send some other persons to Malaysia. At about 4:00 p.m., at the instance of the complainant, Dissa Nayak @ Tushar was arrested by the police team from Dr. Munje Chowk, Pahar Ganj, Delhi while receiving the amount. Dissa Nayak was interrogated at length and it was revealed that he was working as a marketing agent. On sustained interrogation of the accused person, he disclosed that in the year 1994, he was sent by an agent to Bellarus, Russia for getting a job. He worked in the field of marketing and got married to a Russian National. Further, he also disclosed that he was a citizen of Sri Lanka and had come to India on a Business Visa in the year 2009. In the year 2010, he called his wife on Tourist Visa to India. Thereafter, they started living in a rented premises at Janak Puri on a fake identity. Getting clues from the agents, he met during his visit to Russia, he started luring unemployed youths on the pretext of sending them to Malaysia to work in a juice factory of his brother. He also disclosed that he used to charge Rs. 1 lakh to 2 lakhs for arranging the Work Visa to Malaysia. Instead of sending the unemployed youth on a Work Visa, he used to send them only on tourist Visa. The Malaysian authorities use to deport these persons, back to India. He used to change his base frequently to remain undetected. The accused person has collected several lakh rupees through this modus-operandi. During the investigation, it was also learnt that the accused person has procured a driving license and a PAN card on a fake ID. Further, passport of Dissa Nayak and his wife has already expired. Information to Sri Lankan Embassy and local police concerned has already been given for further necessary action on their part.

Further investigation / interrogation is in progress.

PROFILE

 Dissa Nayak @ Tushar s/o D.M. Shekhar r/o WZ – 20 B, 4th Floor, Aspat Pur Ganj, Janakpuri, Delhi (Permanent Address: c/o Padmini Hearth, Dampandiya, Yakwila, North West Province, Sri Lanka) is about 42 years old. He is married and has two children. He has done diploma in Business Management.

(DEVESH CHANDRA SRIVASTVA) IPS ADDL. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, CENTRAL DISTRICT, DELHI.

1. Whereas, a large number of people sell and purchase Second Hand Vehicles including Motor Cycle, Scooters and Cars in Delhi through dealers engaged in this profession.

2. And whereas, it has been noticed that the Second Hand Vehicles are commonly sold without filling all the columns especially date of transaction of Form No.29 and Form No.30 (part-I & II) thereby resulting in transfer of vehicle to number of purchasers before the actual transfer of the vehicle in the records of Transport Authority. This is to circumvent the requirement of section-50 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, that the fact of transfer of vehicle should be reported to the Transport Authority within 14 days for local transfer and 45 days for inter-district transfer.

3. And whereas, it has been noticed that the stolen vehicles involved in crime are sold to several purchasers through dealers/ agents of Second Hand Vehicles. Such second hand vehicles are likely to be used for commission of various type of crime like robbery etc. and may be used even in terrorist activities.

4. And whereas, it has also been observed that the record of seller and purchaser are not kept by the dealers or agents engaged in the business of facilitating sale and purchase of Second Hand Vehicles making it difficult for the in investigation agencies to identify the criminals involved in such crimes

5. And whereas, it is rendered imperative to put regulatory check on the vehicle dealers who deal in sale and purchase of Second Hand Vehicles so that the anti social elements may not use them to sell the stolen vehicles through them and it is felt that immediate action is necessary in this regard.

6. Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by virtue of sec. 144 Cr. PC, 1973 (No.2 of 1974) read with Govt. of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi’s Notification No. U-11036(i)UTL, dated 09/09/2010, I Dr. G. Ram Gopal Naik, ACP/Vasant Vihar, South District, New Delhi do hereby make this written order that all such Vehicle dealers who deal in sale and purchase of second hand vehicles including Motor Cycles, Scooters and Cars in the jurisdiction of Sub- Division Vasant Vihar, South District, New Delhi shall :-

a) Maintain a register of sellers and purchasers of all the transactions of Second Hand Vehicles. b) Ensure that Form 29, Form 30 and the delivery letter are duly filled with clear mention of the date of transaction. c) Affix photographs of the seller and purchaser on the register. d) Keep copies of identification documents like election card, ration card, PAN Card, Driving Licence etc. as well as copies of Form 29, Form 30 ( Part-I & II ) and Delivery Letter for access by the police as and when required. e) Inform the nearby police station if the seller or buyer is found suspicious.

These orders shall come into force with effect from 09.10.2012 and shall remain in force for a period of 60 days up to 07.12.2012 (both days inclusive) unless withdrawn earlier.

Any person dealing in business of sale and purchase of second hand vehicles as dealer or agent who contravenes this order shall be liable to be punished in accordance with the provisions of Section 188 of the IPC.

As the notice cannot be served individually on all concerned, the order is hereby passed ex-parte. It shall be published for the information of the public through the press and by affixing copies on the notice board of the offices of all DCsP, Addl. DCsP, ACsP, Tehsil Officer, all police station concerned and the offices of NDMC and MCD.

(Dr. G. Ram Gopal Naik) ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, SUB-DIVISION: VASANT VIHAR, New Delhi NORTH-WEST DISTT. Dated: 10.10.2012

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TWO BUDDING ROBBERS NABBED

Introduction :

Shalimar Bagh Police of North West District has arrested two budding robbers namely Ravi and Devender @ Lalla and succeeded in solving a robbery case within 24 hours. Robbed property i.e. Rs 7,000/- cash, Delhi Police Identity Card and Nokia Phone N-72 were recovered from their possession.

Incident:

On 8.10.12, Sh. Subhash Chander resident of Police Colony Shalimar Bagh made a PCR call of being getting robbed of Rs 22,000/-, Axis Bank ATM Card, Delhi Police Identity Card & Nokia Phone N-72 at the knife point by youths near Peepal tree in Mota Wala Park, Shalimar Bagh while coming home. Accordingly, a case vide FIR No 271/12 u/s 392/397/34 IPC PS Shalimar Bagh was registered and investigation was taken up. A police team consisting of SI Anil Kumar, SI Rajanpal, ASI Vinay Pal, HC Rajesh, Ct. Sachin, Ct Lalit, Ct. Shambu Tewari and Ct Devender under the leadership of Inspector Veer Singh, SHO/Shalimar Bagh made efforts to nab the criminals. Sources were also deployed to gather intelligence about the criminals having same modus operandi and it is found that one Ravi s/o Devi Singh r/o Binder Wala ka Makan Colony, Samalkha, Distt. Panipat (HR) and Devender @ Lalla s/o Hakim Singh r/o Jhuggi No. 40, Fatak No. 7, Indra Colony, Shalimar Bagh were involved in this crime. A trap was laid and both accused persons were apprehended from Ram Bagh Park near BW Block Shalimar Bagh. From their possessions, robbed property i.e Rs 7,000/- cash, Delhi Police Identity Card and Nokia Phone N-72 were recovered.

Interrogation: During sustained interrogation, both accused have admitted their involvements in above said robbery incident. Accused Devender @ Lalla has already been involved in four cases of PS Shalimar Bagh whereas, Ravi is a fresher in the world of crime.

(DR. P. KARUNAKARAN) IPS DY. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE NORTH-WEST DISTT.,DELHI

Dated: 10.10.12

 ADVOCATE OF ACCUSED DEEPAK SHARMA, Ms JYOTI BATRA ARRESTED IN DEFENCE COLONY HEIST CASE.

 ROBBED CASH OF RS 80 LACS RECOVERED

In continuation of the progress made in the investigation OF Defence Colony Bank heist case, the South District Police have further arrested an advocate Ms. Jyoti Batra who is the advocate of the accused Deepak Sharma. A further recovery of Rs.80 Lacs has also been made at her instance.

ACCUSED ARRESTED

Ms Jyoti Batra Aged: 27 Years d/o Sunder Shyam Batra r/o N-199, Raghuvir Nagar, Khyala, Delhi. .

BRIEF FACTS (BACKGROUND) On 28/9/12, at about 1.19pm an information regarding an incident of firing in front of D- 15, Defence Colony was received at PS Defence Colony, the information was lodged vide DD No. 16A and was entrusted to SI Shiv Dev Singh. SI Shiv Dev Singh with staff reached the spot. One Hundai Verna car white colour bearing registration no. HR 26AQ 0051 was found standing in between the road in front of house no. D-15/16,Defence Colony. One Anil Kumar s/o Sh. Kamal Kishor r/o Tehkhand Okhla (age 27 years) along with one Ashok Kumar s/o Suresh Kumar Singh r/o 1652 Kotla Mubarak Pur, new Delhi were found present at the spot who revealed that he works with Trans Solution Company as a driver of Maruti Eeco (Radio Taxi No. DL 1 RT 2088) attached to Premier Sheild Pvt. Ltd. C-146, Lajpat Nagar- 1, New Delhi. He along with guard Munne Singh and custodian Ashok Kumar went to ICICI cash chest at A-7, Hauz Khas New Delhi to withdraw cash in Radio Cab above said, where another guard Ajab Singh and custodian Raj Kumar s/o Ram Gopal r/o 179B, Jeewan Nagar Ashram, New Delhi also joined them. The staff collected a sum of Rs. 5.25 Crores in two boxes from the cash chest and departed back to office. At about 1pm when they reached in front of house no D- 15 Defence Colony the Hyundai Verna HR 26 AQ 0051 forcibly over took the Radio Taxi and 4 boys came out with weapons and surrounded the Radio Taxi. They pulled him and the other occupants i.e. two guards namely Munne Singh and Ajab Singh and the cash custodian Ashok Kumar Singh. Meanwhile, Munne Singh resisted their act and tried to catch hold of weapon of the assailant. One of the assailants pushed him down and shot him in the chest. The assailants got into the Eeco Radio Taxi carrying cash and reversed the vehicle and fled away, leaving behind the Hyundai Car in which they had come. Mobile phone of the driver and the two weapons were also taken away by the criminals.

The injured guard Munne Singh was taken to AIIMS Trauma by the other guard namely Ajab Singh, who later succumbed to his injury. The Hyundai Verna and the scene of crime were cordoned off. Immediately, on confirmation regarding forceful taking away of Radio Taxi after injuring the guard, Registration Number of vehicle was flashed through PCR and Traffic Control Room. In this regard, a case vide FIR No. 107/12 u/s 394/397/34 IPC & 25/27 Arms Act PS Defence

Colony was registered and investigation was taken up. Special teams consisting of the officers of South District were constituted to investigate the case.

PAST ARRESTS IN THE CASE:

Due to sincere efforts put in by various teams of South District, some useful leads were generated during the course of investigation which further led to police raids spanning over various parts of Delhi, NCR and adjoining states in search of the accused persons. In one such raids, an interstate criminal namely Deepak Sharma(34 years), s/o Bishambar Sharma, r/o H. No. 254, Sector-5, Pushp Vihar, New Delhi was intercepted with one 9 mm pistol and ammunition near Pushp Vihar and on his instance Rs. 1.51 crores were recovered from his house in Pushp Vihar. On his disclosure, the co-accused persons had been accurately pin- pointed. The raids were further conducted and two other persons, relatives of Vijay, one of the wanted criminals in the case, namely Tek Chand and Krishan Kumar were arrested from Palwal and Gurgaon and Rs. 85.85 lacs were recovered from them after carrying out extensive raids in Faridabad, Gurgaon, Mewat areas. But Vijay still remained out of police dragnet and police was persistently following his trails in the entire NCR region.

Later, in efforts to solve the mystery of an insiders hand in giving information to the criminals about the movements of cash, two more persons namely Mukesh Saini @ Jaikishan @ Jackson, and Umesh were further arrested and an amount of Rs.2.65 lacs recovered.

As soon as the identities of the mastermind and other co- accused persons were established, one of the teams of South District rushed to Banda (UP) and on a specific tip off arrested main accused Hari Kishan in District Banda (UP) along with his associate and wife Rashmi Sharma and Rs. 2 lacs were recovered.

On 5.10.12 newly constituted unit Special Task Force (STF), South District also arrested one close aide of one of the co accused namely Ranjit, a general store merchant and recovered Rs. 15 lacs from his house kept in a gunny bag sewn by him after the amount was delivered by co accused on the day of incident on the inducement of a good share to him out of the looted cash. He is a friend of the co accused as they both had studied in the same school in Bhajanpura.

The interrogation from Ranjit further revealed that the balance cash may be in the possession of the younger brother of co accused namely Pawan Kumar @ Pappu, an employee in BSES. The team raided at the house of Pawan in Sudamapuri, Usmanpur and recovered Rs. 10 lacs from a hidden place in his house at 2 PM on 5.10.12 at his instance and arrested him. The other hideouts of the absconding were also raided and searched. The house of accused where he was last putting up with his family before the incident of robbery was also located in Usmanpur. But, the whole family was found to be absconding from the said house.

Next day the same team of STF, South District raided various hideouts in search of Vijay s/o Nahar singh and finally arrested him in the evening dated 6.10.12 at Palwal Bus Stand where he came to meet one of his relatives. He was nabbed there and one Maruti Car No. DL- 3C- C 3293 which had been used in reconnaissance in the crime was also recovered from him. The accused Vijay has disclosed on interrogation that he had got Rs. 90 lacs as his share. Around 86 lacs cash has already been recovered from his relatives namely Tek Chand and Krishan Kumar at the time of their arrest in the same case. Rest of the money he has spent in the excursion to Haridwar and for spending time at various hide outs in NCR for a week and remaining amount he has given to his one associate in Gurgaon.

PRESENT ARREST:

On 09.10.2012 accused Deepak Sharma during sustained interrogation revealed that he had given a bag containing cash to his advocate Jyoti Batra r/o Raghubir Nagar. On the pointing out of the accused Deepak Sharma the bag used for carrying money and Rs 70 Lacs were recovered from house of Jyoti Batra at Raghubir Nagar and Chankya Place respectively. Later on, on the pointing out of accused Jyoti Batra Rs 10 Lacs were recovered from one Pawan Sharma r/o Mandawli, who is known to her being a college friend and was asked to keep the amount in safe custody as some income tax problem has arisen at her home and she was expecting raid from income tax department.

PROFILE OF JYOTI BATRA:

Jyoti Batra is a practicing lawyer in Rohini Court; she did her graduation from Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, UP in the year 2007. After working with some seniors she started her independent practice. She is advocate of accused Deepak Sharma in a previous murder Case of PS RK Puram. She had become friendly with the accused Deepak, who used to visit her house frequently and he used to treat her as his sister.

RECOVERIES FROM JYOTI BATRA:

1. Rs 80 Lacs.

2. Bag used for carrying money

3. Slips of ICICI Banks

Till now, 11 persons have been arrested in this case. However, various teams of South District are still working on this case and have mounted surveillance at various places. Some teams have also been dispatched to other locations where the remaining two main absconding criminals are likely to have taken shelter to apprehend accused and recover rest of the robbed cash.

(CHHAYA SHARMA) DCP/SOUTH DISTRICT