15 kg ghee, 20 kg namkeen: Thief’s latest crime spree at Delhi sweet shop proves to be his undoing

According to police, Rahul has 64 cases against him, including theft, arms offences and murder.

The burglary occurred astatine Pitampura’s Aggarwal Sweets connected October 1. Shop proprietor Vikas Tayal told The Indian Express, “I was woken up by a telephone telephone from a person aboriginal successful the morning. He had been retired connected his greeting locomotion and noticed that my store was unfastened and looked ransacked with nary 1 inside.”

Tayal rushed to his store and discovered a deity’s idol, tins of ghee and refined oil, a tv set, a ample kadai utilized to marque jalebis, a weighing scale, namkeen snacks, sweets, a rickshaw utilized for transporting sweets, a fewer bottles of acold drinks, and Rs 10,000 successful currency were missing.

When helium checked the CCTV footage, helium saw that 2 burglars entered the store aft breaking unfastened the shutter. “There had been a robbery successful my store earlier arsenic good but the thieves had gotten distant with precise little. This time, the robbers stole items worthy implicit Rs 70,000-75,000,” said Tayal.

The constabulary probe led to the apprehension of Rahul connected October 5. During questioning, helium revealed that his friend, Suraj, was besides progressive successful the burglary, constabulary claimed.

“We managed to retrieve 2 15 kg drums containing ghee and lipid each and a scooter stolen from Tilak Nagar,” said Abhishek Dhania, DCP (Northwest), adding, “We are making further efforts to hint his subordinate and their imaginable engagement successful different cases.”