Dated 10.03.2010
Ø DESPERATE GANG OF ROBBERS/DACOITS BUSTED.
Ø TWO DREADED MEMBERS OF VIJAY @ SONU GANG ARRESTED FROM ROHINI AREA.
Ø MORE THAN 20 INCIDENTS OF GUN-POINT ROBBERIES AND BURGLARIES IN NORTH-WEST & NORTH EAST DELHI SOLVED.
Ø TWO COUNTRYMADE PISTOLS, 4 LIVE CARTRIDGES, TWO DAGGERS, TWO CARS AND ABOUT 70 GMS GOLD RECOVERED ALONGWITH SOPHISTICATED HOUSE BREAKING TOOLS.
The Anti-Extortion Cell of Crime Branch has busted a desperate gang of robbers/dacoits and arrested two dreaded members of the gang from Shahbad area. The gang is involved/wanted in more than 20 incidents of armed robberies and burglaries in the Trans-Yamuna area. Two good quality countrymade pistols with 4 live cartridges, two daggers, two cars, monkey caps and about 70 gms gold have been recovered from the possession of the accused persons in addition to sophisticated house breaking tools. The identities of the arrested accused persons are as under:
1. Rohit @ Billoo (24 years) S/o Rajpal Singh R/o M-28/17, Raghubir Nagar, Delhi.
2. Rajender Singh (21 years) S/o Onkar Singh R/o H. No. 681, Tahirpur Sarai, Dilshad Garden, Delhi.
THE OPERATION AND TEAM
HC Satpal Dagar of Anti Extortion Cell received information regarding criminals active in committing robberies in the North-West and North-East areas of Delhi. After some diligent follow up, on 09.03.2010, HC Satpal received secret information that members of the Vijay @ Sonu Gang involved in these crimes would assemble at Bus Stand, Shahbad in order to commit a crime in the locality. The information was further developed and a team under the close supervision of Shri Jasvir Malik, led by Inspr. Suresh Kumar and comprising of ASIs Rajbir Singh, W/ASI Haider, HCs Satpal, Yashpal, Sanjay, and Consts. Subhash, Rajesh, Sandeep, Rajeev Sahrawat & Jasbir was constituted to arrest the gang members. The team laid a trap at the expected place of arrival of the gangsters and one of the accused Rohit @ Billoo was successfully apprehended from Bus Stand, Shahbad in a Maruti car bearing fake registration No. DL2C 4327. During search, two daggers, monkey caps and house breaking instruments were recovered from the car of the accused Rohit @ Billoo. After interrogation, of the accused Rohit @ Billoo, the Crime Branch team succeeded in arresting his accomplice Rajender Singh near Delhi Engineering College, Shahbad Daulatpur in another Maruti car bearing fake Reg. No. DL7C D 4197. 2 good quality countrymade pistols, 4 live cartridges and about 70 gms of gold jewelry purchased by looted money was recovered from his car.
On interrogation, the accused persons confessed their involvement in more than 20 criminal incidents of Gun-point robberies and burglaries in the Trans-Yamuna area. Both the accused persons are active members of the Vijay @ Sonu Gang.
The accused Rohit @ Billoo came to Delhi from his native village Khekra, Baghpat alongwith his family in the year 2008 in search of a job and started supplying Chicken from Ghazipur to different restaurants of Delhi along with his associate Rajender Singh. In this way, he was earning a comfortable amount of Rs. 15-20,000/- per month but this was not enough to meet requirements of money for gambling and expensive liquor. So, he joined the gang of Vijay @ Sonu to earn easy money. Earlier he has been involved 8 times in different criminal cases of Delhi. He was released from Jail in February 2010 and returned to the gang immediately and resumed committing robberies.
Accused Rajender hails from Village Mattour, Daurala, District Meerut, UP. His family shifted to Delhi about 15 years back. The accused started his criminal career with petty crime which later led him to join the Vijay @ Sonu Gang. His father is also lodged in Abdullahpur Jail in Meerut for a murder case committed over an ancestral property dispute in District Meerut, UP.
This gang usually targeted copper factories in Farsh Bazar and Seema Puri area and created a sensation after committing 12 gun-point robberies of copper wire in different factory godowns after tying up the watchmen. During the commission of crime, the gang members used to wear monkey caps to avoid being identified later. These monkey caps have been recovered from the possession of the accused persons at the time of their arrest. They used the recovered Maruti cars to carry the looted copper. The gang leader Vijay @ Sonu alongwith another gang member Dilshad used to dispose of the looted copper.
After distribution of the looted booty, the gang members used to celebrate their success in crime in different bars of Ghaziabad, UP and the gang leader Vijay @ Sonu used to win much of the share of other gang members during gambling under the influence of liquor.
Efforts are being made and raids are being conducted to arrest the gang leader Vijay @ Sonu and his other gang members. The original ownership of the recovered Maruti cars is being verified. The concerned police stations have been informed about the arrest of the accused persons.
Addl. Commissioner of Police,
Crime, Delhi
DELHI POLICE
NEW DELHI DISTRICT
PRESS RELEASE
On 25-02-2010 one lady Ms. Henny Soelistyowati a resident of Indonesia, who was staying in Room No. 1010, Taj Mahal Hotel, Man Singh Road, New Delhi reported the theft of her hand bag, while she was in House of Ming Restaurant. She further told that her bag contains one Sony camera, Cell phone, Passport etc. & U.S. Dollars. On this case FIR No. 20/10 dated 25-02-2010 u/s 380 IPC was registered in P.S. Tughlak Road, New Delhi. During investigation the CCTV footage were taken and 2/3 persons were identified as suspected and their photographs were circulated to all Security Staff of Five Star hotels in Delhi.
During such watch one person namely Vicnta Montotyo Chipana s/o Pablo Montoya r/o Pasje Las Agatas Balconcillo Lavi Ctoria, Lima Peru, Age – 71 years was detained on 09-03-2010 and interrogated but he did not disclose any thing and claimed innocence. However another team which was showing the photographs of suspected persons to STD Booths/Taxi Stands etc. in Pahar Ganj area met a shoe maker who identified two persons as they have come at his shop for getting the shoes prepared. A watch was kept on the shop and on 09-03-2010 in the afternoon, when they came to collect their shoes in Pahar Ganj area they were apprehended and identified as Juin Francisco Cordoya Jaime s/o Nicolas Cordoya r/o Satelite II Aso Lima, Peru Age – 45 years and Falicita Infs Iparraguirre Aliaga w/o Felicita Ines r/o Asociaeion Lamenaeho II Ealle Los Alarrobos, Lima, Peru Age- 51 years (Both Peru Nationals) and on their search one Sony camera, Mobile Phone make Samsung and U.S. Dollars stolen from the bag of Ms. Henny Soelistyowati were recovered. Besides this about 5 Mobile Phones, 02 ipods, 01 Laptop, 02 Wrist Watches, 03 Cameras and many U.S. Dollars were recovered, which were from all the three which stolen from various Five Star Hotels during last 15 days as the three arrived in India on 20-02-2010 and were staying in various hotels in Pahar Ganj area. They were changing hotels frequently.
The modus operandi of the three was they will go in Five Star Hotel during the breakfast time having big bags in their hands. They will target the lady taking breakfast in a restaurant keeping aside her hand bag, two of them will cover the CCTV Camera and one person will put his jacket or stroll on the hand bag and on the pretext of taking back the jacket or stroll will take hand bag with it and going some few meters away will put the hand bag and the jacket inside the bag so that hand bag is not seen in the CCTV camera. All the 03 will go out separately from the hotel with confidence.
Efforts are being made to connect the other mobile phones, ipods etc. with other thefts in various Hotels. The assistance of Mr. Paul Duclos, Counsellor, Embassy of Peru was taken in interrogating the above three Peru Nationalists and his assistance to the police is appreciated.
10.03.10
INTERSTATE GANG OF HIGHWAY ROBBERS BUSTED : FOUR ARRESTED:
ATTEMPT OF DACOITY FOILED IN A FARM HOUSE : ONE STOLEN WAGON-R, TWO BUTTON ACTUATED KNIVES, ETC. RECOVERED
South District Police has arrested four members of an interstate gang of desperate robbers who are allegedly involved in more than 20 cases of dacoity, robbery and vehicle jacking, especially TATA-407, TATA-709, trucks in Delhi and NCR and foiled an attempt to commit a dacoity in a farm house of a renowned businessman in the area of Fateh Pur Beri. One stolen Wagon-R, two button actuated knives, one screw driver and one plastic rope used for tying the victims have been recovered from them.
ACCUSED ARRESTED:
1. Momin @ Kana (Gang Leader) age 30 years s/o Kadir r/o Mohalla- Jalalti Pura, Kasba- Kithor, Meerut
2. Gulfam age 24 years s/o Islam. r/o Kasba- Kithor, Meerut UP
3. Parvezi age 21 years s/o Akhtar r/o village- Datia, PS- Chandpur, Bijjnor UP
4. Ansar age 33 years s/o Jamil r/o Village- Bhadkau, PS Narsana, Distt. Buland shar, UP
TEAM , INCIDENT & ARREST:
In the recent past, several incidents of day robbery and vehicle-jacking were reported in various parts of Delhi and NCR. In order to prevent these incidents and to nab criminals involved in these cases, several teams were constituted. A team of Special Staff, South District consisting of SIs Sanjeev Kumar, Balbir Singh, Surinder Dahiya ASIs Gyanender Singh, ASI (Drv) Mahender Singh, HCs, Vijay Singh, Shiv Kumar, Vinod Rajinder, Mahinder, Shyamvir Singh, Constables Subash, Yashbir, and Shailender, under the supervision of Inspector Vijay Singh, I/C Special Staff and Shri Bal Krishan Sharma, ACP/Operations, South was formed to identify and apprehend the criminals involved in these incidents.
The team so formed worked relentlessly and collected details of several criminals with similar modus- operandi and activated their secret informers to collect information about the gangs involved in these incidents. These details were analyzed minutely and on the basis of secret information it came to fore that gang headed by Momin @ Kana and Chand might be involved in these incidents. The hard work of police team bore results and specific information was received on 05.03.2010 that members of this gang would assemble near Hanuman Mandir Park, Bandh Road in the area of PS Fatehpur Beri in order to commit a dacoity in a farm house of a renowned businessman near Bandh Road.
The team laid a trap on 05.03.2010 at park near Hanuman Mandir Temple Bandh Road with secret informer. At around 2.00 PM, 5 persons gathered in tomb and same were identified by the informer. As soon as police team started acting as per information, all the five accused sensing the police presence started running from there. But police team acted swiftly and nabbed four above mentioned accused persons. The person who fled away from the spot was identified as Chand s/o Yamin. A case vide FIR No. 38/10 dated 05/03/2010 u/s 399/402 IPC & 25 Arms Act was registered at PS Fatehpur Beri, Delhi and all the four accused were arrested.
INTERROGATION:
During sustained interrogation, Momin @ Kana disclosed that he and Chand are the masterminds of this gang and he alongwith his accomplices mainly targeted the farm houses. They used to first enter the farm house by jumping the outer wall of the farm house and overpower the inmates at the point of deadly weapons. After that they used to tie up their hands and legs with the help of rope and in case of any resistance they even do not hesitate to cause injury to the inmates with the help of arms being carried by them. They used to rob only cash, jewellery items and small valuable articles like mobile phones, laptops etc., which they could keep easily in a bag. They adopted a unique modus-operandi. When members of this gang are inside the house for committing a crime, one of the gang members used to stand outside the house for making aware them on mobile phone about the outside happenings and a safer time to come out of the targeted house. Momin further disclosed that he alongwith other associates started committing auto lifting and highway robberies and they usually targeted Tata-407, Tata-709 vehicles and other big trucks plying on highways. One of the gang members would first takes lift from the targeted vehicle and later other members would also join him. They used to tie hands and legs of driver and helper and throw them at aloof places before escaping away alongwith the robbed vehicle and other articles. He further disclosed that Chand used to dispose off the robbed vehicle and jewellery.
PROFILE:
Momin @ Kana has studied up to class 6th at his native village. He came to Delhi in 2005 in search of job and started working as a labour. He fell in the company of Chand who is a notorious highway robber, who lured him to earn quick easy money and he joined his gang and started committing robberies. He alongwith his accomplice had previously been arrested by Special Staff, South District in the year 2008 and remained in prison for six months. After release from the jail, he became very desperate and formed gang and started committing dacoity, vehicle jacking and burglaries in Delhi and adjoining areas like Faridabad, Gurgaon and NOIDA.