The Delhi Police have busted a gang of robbers and snatchers active in South West Delhi. The mastermind of the gang along with his other associates was on Saturday arrested by the Crime Branch of Delhi police after a brief encounter in Dwarka.
According to the police, they got a tip off that members of a gang, involved in a number of cases in West Delhi will gather near a park in Sector 11 of Dwarka to meet their associates.
Following the information a trap was laid near the expected place on Saturday and the team spotted four young men at the park. They were cordoned off by the police team and were directed to surrender. Instead, one of them, later identified as the kingpin whipped out his automatic gun, fired upon the police team and tried to flee.
Brief scuffleIn retaliation and self-defence, the police team also fired and after a brief scuffle, all the accused were overpowered by the alert members of the police team,” Additional Commissioner of Police Crime, Ravindra Yadav said.
According to the police, the arrested kingpin of the gang was identified as Pardeep Dogra. He was involved in several abduction and motorcycle theft and carjacking cases.
The other three arrested persons were identified as Dinesh, Om Prakash and Kuldeep, who are brothers.
During interrogation, Dogra told police that he was earlier arrested in a case of abduction and carjacking for which he spent four months in the jail. After coming out of the jail, he started living in a rented flat in Dwarka and committed robberies along with his associates.
The police have seized one .32 bore pistol with three live and one fired cartridges and two .315 bore country-made pistols with five live cartridges. They also recovered Rs. 40,000 cash from the accused and one black motorcycle.
