PRESS RELEASE
04.09.2013
NOTORIOUS BURGLER ARRESTED BY AATS/SED AND RECOVERED GOLD ABOUT 3 LAKHS
A team of Anti-Auto Theft Squad led by Inspr. Jagdish Yadav consisting of HC Chaman Lal No. 112/SE, Ct. Rajvir No. 2054/SE, and Ct Kuldeep No. 1213/SE under the supervision of Sh. Ashok Saroha, ACP/Ops/SED apprehended Notorious burglar namely Zakir S/o Md. Alam R/oD-392 J.J. Colony, Madanpur Khadar, New Delhi
In the evening of 02.09.2013, HC Chaman Lal No. 1421/SE, Ct. Rajvir No. 2054/SE and Ct Kuldeep No. 1213/SE were present in the area of PS Jaitpur for checking the crime and criminals operating in the area of South-East District. HC Chaman Lal received a secret information that one person will come at Agra Canal Pul Madanpur Khadar having some stolen gold articles in his possession. At about 8 PM one person namely Md. Zakir S/o Md. Alam R/oD-392 J.J. Colony, Madanpur Khadar, New Delhi, got stopped at the instance of secret informer and on his search two gold bangles and one gold bracelet were recovered from his possession.
On sustained interrogation, the accused disclosed about some more gold articles at his home which were stolen by him from the area of P.S. Jamia Nagar. At the instance of accused jewelery articles have been recovered from his house. A case of burglary vide FIR No. 386/13 u/s 380 IPC PS Jamia Nagar, has been worked out.
Modus Operandi:
The accused Md. Zakir is in the habit of committing burglaries during day time particularly in the area of PS Jamia Nagar. He used to target locked houses.
Previous Involvements:-
- 145/13 u/s 380/411/34 IPC PS Jamia Nagar
- 114/13 u/s 25/54/59 Arms Act PS Jaitpur
- 138/13 u/s 380/454/411/34 IPC PS Jamia Nagar
- 15/13 380/411/34 IPC PS Jamia Nagar
Workedout case :-
1. 386/13 u/s 380 IPC PS Jamia Nagar.
Recoveries:-
- One pair of gold ear rings
- Two gold bangles
- One gold bracelet
- One pair of gold ear rings with diamonds
- Two gold rings
- Two gold “kade”
- One pair of ear rings with red diamonds.
The accused has disclosed about three more cases of burglaries committed by him in the area of PS Jamia Nagar. Further raids are being conducted to affect more recoveries.
(DR. P. KARUNAKARAN)
Deputy Commissioner of Police,
South-East District, New Delhi.
PRESS RELEASE
04.09.2013
Major Highlights:
AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF “TRICHI GANG” POPULARLY KNOWN AS “THAK THAK GANG” ARRESTED.
THREE LAPTOPS AND ONE MOBILE PHONE RECOVERED.
THE GANG ADOPTED UNIQUE MODUS OPERANDI THAT ONE MEMBER PUT 10/12 NOTES OF TEN AND TWENTY RUPEES NEAR THE CAR IN WHICH DRIVER SITTING INSIDE CLEVERLY AND TOLD THE DRIVER YOUR RUPEES FALLEN OUTSIDE THE CAR, WHEN DRIVER STARTED PICKING THE NOTES THE ANOTHER MEMBER OF GANG LIFT THE BAG OR VALUABLES INSIDE THE CAR.
South East District Police has arrested a desperate bag lifter namely K. Dinesh S/O of infamous “TRICHI” gang popularly known as “THAK THAK GANG”, who are involved in several cases of bag lifting in Delhi. Three laptops and one mobile phone have been recovered from his possession/ instance.
TEAM AND INCIDENT:
In the recent past, several cases of bag lifting from inside the cars by spreading the 10 or 20 rupee notes near the car were reported all over Delhi and NCR. In order to prevent these incidents and nab the criminals involved in these cases, several teams were constituted.A team of PP Nehru Place, Police Station Kalkaji, South East District consisting of SI Sanjeev Kumar I/C PP Nehru Place, ASI Subash, Ct. Karamvir Singh and Ct. Vikas was formed under the supervision of Inspector Brijinder Singh SHO/Kalkaji and overall supervision of Ms Usha Rangnani, ACP/Kalkaji to develop the information and apprehend the accused. The team worked relentlessly and collected details of several criminals with similar modus-operandi. It came to fore that the members of “TRICHI” gang might be involved in these incidents. The members of team were deployed in civil clothes in the affected areas of Nehru Place. On 02/09/2013 Ct Karamvir was present in front of Satyam cinema complex, suddenly heard noise of “chor chor” and saw a person running towards Eros hotel and another person is chasing him. Ct. Karamvir immediately swung into action and apprehended the person after chasing him around 300-400 yds. In the mean time person namely Naresh S/O Chandan Singh R/O C-62, Gali No.2, Sangam Vihar, Delhi who was chasing the accused reached the spot and stated that a person put 10-20 notes near his car and told him that his money has fallen outside. When he was collecting the notes from ground heard the noise of opening his car door. He found this person tried to lift his bag which was on the back seat of his car. When he raised alarm the accused started running. A case vide FIR No. 390/13 dated 02/09/2013 U/S 379/511 IPC PS Kalkaji was registered and the accused was arrested.
INTERROGATION & MODUS OPERANDAI:
During sustained interrogation, accused disclosed that he is an active member of bag lifter gang headed by one Raja R/O Trichi, Tamil Nadu (who are operating in Delhi and NCR area like Gurgoan, Noida, Ghaziabad etc.) They mainly targeted the vehicles parked on road side in which driver sitting inside. They also adopted modus operandi that one of gang member put 10-12 ten or twenty rupee notes near the car in which driver is sitting inside, the other member told the driver that your rupees fallen outside the car. When driver of the car picking the notes from ground, the other member of the gang lift the bag or valuables from inside the car and passed the same to other member and all members left the place.
They also adopted another modus operandi that they break down window glasses of vehicle and taken away bag, laptop and other valuable items from inside the car in a very short span of time and used to pass the stolen items to other members of their gang who keep standing nearby the place of incident. Their modous operandi is unique as they break down the window glass of vehicle and opened the door from inside and due to this the anti auto theft devices of vehicle were not able to track down their movement and they stole the precious articles from inside the car
RECOVERY:
- Three laptops of different make
- One mobile phone.
Investigation of the case is in progress and efforts are being made to affect more recoveries and arrest other associates and connected the recovered articles from cases.
(DR. P. KARUNAKARAN)
Deputy Commissioner of Police,
South-East District, New Delhi.
PRESS RELEASE
Dated : 04.09.13
Major Highlights:-
GANG OF ILLICIT LIQUOR SUPPLIERS BUSTED AND HUGE CONSIGNMENT (25 PETTI CONTAINING 1200 QUARTER BOTTLES) OF ILLICIT LIQUOR TO BE SUPPLIED TO BOOTLEGGERS, IN DELHI AND NCR RECOVERED.
ONE CALL CENTRE CAB MAHINDRA XYLO USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF SMUGLLING/TRANSPORTATION OF ILLICIT LIQUOR RECOVERED.
South-East District Police has arrested a member of an interstate gang of illicit liquor supplier namely Amit Saini s/o Prem Saini r/o H.No. 195, Sector 4, Rohini Delhi and recovered 25 cartons of liquors from the SUV he was driving. The recovered illicit liquor was to be supplied to the local bootleggers in Delhi and NCR in the coming days. A Mahindra XYLO for transportation of illicit liquor in Delhi and nearby areas has been recovered.
INCIDENT, TEAM & ARREST
A team consisting of SI Rajesh Kumar I/C PP Sarai Kale Khan, HC Surender388/SE, HC Vipin 830/SE and Ct Ashwani 3701/SEunder the supervision of Inspector Suneel Kumar SHO/PS Sunlight Colony and over all supervision of Shri H.M. Bakshi, ACP/New Friends Colony was formed to collect information and bust the gang involved in these activities. The team so formed worked very hard and collected details of several criminals previously involved in such cases and activated their secret informers to develop information about the criminals involved in supply of illicit liquor. These details were analyzed minutely and on the basis of secret information, it came to fore that gang operating in NOIDA and NCR might be involved in this crime. The hard work of police team bore results and on the intervening night of 31.8.13 and 01.9.13 at around 2 AM, a Mahindra XYLO bearing registration number UP-16 T 1745 was noticed coming fromAshram Chowk via ring road Sarai Kale Khan going towards NOIDA.Vehicle was signalled to stop but the driver made attempt to escape from the spot but the staff put barricades on the road and caught the accused. On checking of the Mahindra XYLO, 25(gatta Petti) cartons containing 1200 Quarter Bottles of illicit liquor (NVBesto, McDowell no 1 and Bagpiper) were recovered from the car. Accordingly a case vide FIR No.343/13 u/s 33 Delhi Excise Act was registered at PS Sunlight Colony and accused driver Amit Saini s/o Prem Saini r/o H.No. 195, Sector 4, Rohini was arrested.
MODUS OPERANDI ,INTERROGATION & PROFILE
During interrogation, it was found that the owner of the car had purchased the vehicle for Call centre duty. The owner is running a travel agency in the name of Metro Travels. But there was no more profit in running cab with the call centre and smuggling illicit liquor was profitable. The vehicle was attached with the HCL Company in NOIDA and it was being used for ferrying the employees in the day and to smuggle liquor in night. The SUV car is newly purchased and they have more boot space than small car which can store more number of cartons fetching good profit in a single round. The driver of the vehicle used to earn Rs. 1000/- for each supply. He used to pick the liquor from Faridabad and take it to NOIDA. He further told that the smugglers are so desperate that sometimes they make four to five rounds each night and earn lot of money. He further disclosed that they keep on changing the route on each trip to dodge the Police and Excise Department. The driver is so desperate that he don’t hesitate to hit the police barricade in order to escape from being detected and caught.
PROFILE OF ACCUSED
The accused originally belongs to UP. His family and uncles are settled in Rohini and he has taken a rented room at Palla village in Faridabad. He picks the stock from Faridabad and leaves at NOIDA. He studied up to 7th class. He is married and has one daughter. His economic condition is not good and he was in need of the money.
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RECOVERY
1.25cartons (25X48 Quarter Bottles) of BestoNV, Bagpiper and Mcdowell no 1 whisky “for sale in Arunachal and Haryana only”.
2. Mahindra XYLO SUV
Investigation of the case is in progress to check whether the recovered liquor is spurious or otherwise.
(DR. P. KARUNAKARAN)
Dy. Commissioner of Police
South-East District, New Delhi.
SOUTH DISTRICT
PRESS RELEASE
Dated : 04.09.13
Two members of notorious ‘Thak Thak Gang’ arrested.
Diamond / gold jewelry worth around Rs. 50 lacs stolen from the car of a businessman in Murad Nagar, District Ghaziabad, UP recovered.
Special Staff, South District has arrested two bag lifters of notorious interstate “Thak Thak Gang” namely Ramesh(25 years) s/o Somnathr/o H-1/232, Madangir, New Delhi and Suraj(19 years) s/o Marigar/o H-1/225, Madangir, New Delhi. With their arrest, diamond and gold jewelry worth Rs. 50 lacs (approx.) has been recovered from their possession, which was stolen from the car of a businessman in Murad Nagar, District Ghaziabad , UP.
Brief facts :
On 30-08-13, Sh. Anil Somani, a businessman of Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi was going from Delhi to Dehradun to take part in a Jewelry Exhibition. He was traveling in his Skoda Car along with his driver and was carrying a suitcase containing diamond and gold jewelry. When they reached near Asalat Nagar Dental College, NH-58, a young man tapped on the glass of the rear door of the car and informed Sh. Somani that there was a puncture in the rear tyre of the car. The driver stopped the car and came outside to look for the puncture. At the same time, the same person drew the attention of the businessman towards the left side of the car and another person who was standing on the right side surreptitiously opened the right side door of the car and fled away with the suitcase containing the jewelry. By the time it came into notice of the businessman, it was too late and both the accused persons had fled away from there on a motorcycle along with the suitcase. In this regard, a case vide FIR No. 390/13 dated 30.8.2013 u/s 379 IPCPS Murad Nagar was registered and investigation taken up.
Investigation :
During investigation, local police of PS Murad Nagar also passed this information to Special Staff, South District to seek help in tracing the accused persons involved in such criminal activities.
Accordingly, a teamled by Inspector Jasmohinder Chaudhari, I/C Special Staff/SD was formed under the close supervision of Sh. Kulwant Singh, ACP/Operations.The team worked relentlessly and collected details of several criminals with similar modus-operandi and deputed secret sources. It came to fore that the members of infamous bag lifter “Thak Thak Gang” of Madangir, New Delhi led by notorious bag lifter Rameshmight be involved in this incident.
On 02.09.13 at about 04.30 PM, HC Vijay Kumar received specific information that two young boys involved in such type of crime would go in Khokha Market, Saket to dispose of stolen jewelry worth several lacs of rupees. Immediately, the team swung into action and a trap was laid and both the above said accused persons were apprehended as soon as they reached there on a motorcycle. Jewelry worth lacs of rupees was recovered from their possession.
Interrogation :
During interrogation, both accused confessed to have stolen the jewelry from the car of a businessman in the area of Murad Nagar, UP on 30.08.13.
Modus Operandi :
One of the modi operandi of the gang is that they used to targeted cars parked in the parking or at roadside.Initially, members of gang would conduct reconnaissance to find out the cars wherein huge cash, valuables or laptop bags were kept.After identifying the vehicle, they would break open the window panes of vehicles and would escape from the spot along with bags and valuables.
Another modus operandi of the gang is that they used to distract the attention of driver/person sitting in the car by throwing 10-20 currency notes on the ground near the driver side of the car and would ask the driver to get his money which ostensibly fell down on the road or by saying that fuel or oil from the car was leaking etc. As soon as the attention of driver was diverted or he came out of the car, other gang members standing on the other side of the car would escape away with the bag or laptop and other valuable items from the car andpass on the same to other members of their gang, waiting nearby.
The gang members used to carry catalogues containing samples of clothes with them, so that they could represent themselves before the police or public as salesmen in case of apprehension or any suspicion.
Profile of accused persons :
- Ramesh(25 years) s/o Somnathr/o H-1/232, Madangir, New Delhi is illiterate. He belongs to District Trichi, Tamilnadu. Earlier, he was a rickshaw puller. Later, he came in contact of bad elements of the area and started committing crime.
- Suraj(19 years) s/o Marigar/o H-1/225, Madangir, New Delhi is illiterate. He belongs to District Trichi, Tamilnadu. He came in contact of accused Ramesh and joined him in the crime.
Recoveries:
- Diamond and gold jewelry worth Rs 50 lacs (approx.) including 18 diamond kadas, 10 diamond rings, 6 diamond necklaces, 14 gold necklaces, 6 gold rings, 6 pairs gold ear rings, etc.
- Motorcycle No. DL 3SCG 4672 used in the commission of crime.
Further investigation of the case is in progress to probe into their other involvements and to arrest their associates. Police personnel involved in good work is being rewarded suitably.
(P.S. KUSHWAH)
ADDL. DCP/SOUTH DISTRICT
NORTH WEST DISTT.DATED 03.09.2013
PRESS RELEASE
ONE NIGERIAN ARRESTED IN CYBER FRAUD OF RS.10 LACS, IN THE NAME OF BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION,
Recovered Rs. 70,000/- cash.
One laptop Recovered.
Three hand Watches recovered.
3 mobile phones recovered.
INTRODUCTION AND INCIDENT
A complaint was received from Mr. Sagar Nandi regarding cheating of Rs.10 lacs through e-mails. He got a job offer through an email purported to be from Hilton Hotel London and asked to mail his resume. He mailed his resume and received a Letter of Appointment through the said maid id of Hilton Hotel. With these proceedings, he was started asking for money on account of application fee, health insurance fee etc. He again received an e-mail with the name of “BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION VISA DEPARTMENT” for the visa process for which he was asked to deposit certain cash amount. Getting allured by the offer, complainant deposited cash Rs.10,12,400/- Lacs in different accounts. Complainant was being contacted on phone numbers also, one Indian number and from one number of UK also. One day he was called at around 9 AM morning from UK number, stating to be calling from Hilton Hotel London and demanded 3000 pounds more for VISA charges. Complainant got suspicious as the time in London at that time must be 4.30 AM and at such early hours, no official communication is probably possible. He got telephone numbers of Hilton Hotel and then came to know about the whole cheating as no such vacancies were being offered by the Hilton Hotel, London. He also verified from British High Commission and came to know that he had been cheated by some unknown persons. Complainant approached PS Maurya Enclave and a case of cyber fraud was registered vide FIR No. 268/13 U/S 420/468/471 IPC on Dt. 26/08/13 and investigation was taken up by SI Kuldeep Kumar. During course of investigation the account nos. in which the complainant had deposited his amount were found opened on fake id,s. The mobile phone of the accused person was put on technical surveillance and the location of mobile phone of accused person was traced in Mumbai. Considering the increasing number of such cases, ACP/Saraswati Vihar Sh.Ashish Anan constituted a team in the supervision of Inspr.Parveen Kumar, SHO/Maurya Enclave, comprising of SI Kuldeep Kumar and Ct. Somveer and the team analyzed all the records, took technical help and reached in Mumbai as the position of the accused was suspected to be in Mumbai. After making all efforts, the team succeeded in zeroing on one suspect, allegedly residing in Goregaon, Mumbai and finally caught one Nigerian namely Ajayi Sunday Olufemi S/o Ajayi Omolayo R/o Flat No.1604, Orchid Building, Mantri Park, Film City Road, Goregaon (E) Mumbai During detail interrogation, said Nigerian namely Ajayi Sunday Olufemi initially did not co-operate and not replied the query made to him however later on confessed about his involvement in the said cheating. The mobile phone used in the crime was recovered from the possession of the alleged person. In length interrogation was carried out and the alleged/accused person disclosed that he has been staying in Mumbai since 2008 on student visa and has completed BSc – Hospitality Studies from the MumbaiUniversity. In order to get easy money he cheated people by sending randomly e-mails of Job Offer and Letter of Appointment with the name of HILTON HOTEL, LONDON and BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION VISA DEPARTMENT by creating their faked sites and ID. He further disclosed that he has arranged some faked a/c no. and asked the person who contacted him for the said faked job offer to deposit certain amount for visa, health insurance, etc.