Broken finger the giveaway, robbery suspect

As Mandal tried to defy the 2 men, the scooty’s pillion rider whipped retired a pistol and changeable him connected the near wrist. They past fled with the cash. Soon aft registering a lawsuit nether Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Arms Act astatine Gulabi Bagh constabulary station, a Central Range (Crime Branch) squad headed by Inspector Sunil Bhardwaj started looking astatine CCTV camera footage of the incident.

The team, portion identifying the robbers, recovered that the scooty had been reported stolen from Chander Vihar. On re-examination of the footage, the squad noticed that the small digit connected the near manus of the antheral driving the scooty appeared to beryllium broken.

On September 24, the constabulary received a tip-off that the scooty operator was hiding successful Delhi’s Rohini area. A trap was laid and Dhir Singh alias Dheeraj alias Kale (42) – progressive successful 17 cases of dacoity, robbery, theft and different offences – was arrested.

“During archetypal questioning, Singh did not springiness satisfactory answers and tried to mislead the police. But connected sustained interrogation, and erstwhile confronted with the CCTV footage, helium broke down and admitted to person committed the transgression on with his associate,” DCP (Crime Branch) Rakesh Paweriya said.

He added that Singh was fixed Rs 2.4 lakh from the stolen wealth by his associate, who is inactive absconding. Of the Rs 2.4 lakh, the constabulary could retrieve lone Rs 17,500 from Singh, arsenic helium had spent the remainder of the wealth repairing his car, paying his debt, getting dental treatment, buying household items, gambling and purchasing liquor.