4 country-made pistols among items recovered
4 country-made pistols among items recovered
In a major crackdown on robbers and snatchers active during the night in South Delhi areas, teams of the south district police caught 16 alleged robbers/ snatchers, including five minor boys, on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, the police said on Tuesday.
Four country-made pistols with four cartridges, 11 stolen mobile phones, nine two-wheelers, two long knives and '14,500 were recovered from the alleged criminals.
Senior police officers said that questioning of the 16 robbers and snatchers has helped them solve 44 cases of robbery, snatching and motor vehicle theft reported from different areas in South Delhi.
Ishwar Singh, deputy commissioner of police (South), said that in the recent weeks, South Delhi areas had witnessed a series of street crimes in night and early morning hours by criminals riding motorcycles and scooties. “The criminals mostly targeted passengers travelling in autorickshaw, morning walkers and employees of call centres, hotels and malls returning home late in the night,” Mr Singh said.
In order to curb such crimes, Mr Singh said a detailed study regarding the routes taken by such criminals, crime mapping, crime pattern, vulnerable areas, etc., was done by the police teams. The reports prepared by the teams were analysed and several anti-street crime measures were adopted.
On the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, over 100 police personnel of South Delhi police stations, led by ACPs and inspectors, put pickets on strategic locations and a drive to nab bike-borne robbers and snatchers was launched.
“Intensive vehicle checking by our police teams helped us catch 16 criminals and recovery of weapons and stolen two-wheelers,” said the DCP.
