Three policemen identified a carjacker they had seen in a CCTV grab and helped the East Delhi police nab a man suspected of stealing around three dozen cars.
Three policemen identified a carjacker they had seen in a CCTV grab and helped the East Delhi police nab a man suspected of stealing around three dozen cars.
On Tuesday night, the three policemen on picket duty stopped a car for a vehicle check in Shakarpur area. While checking the documents of the car, the policemen realised that the driver was the same man whose images they had come across while analysing the CCTV footage of a carjacking incident.
The accused, identified as 40-year-old Aslam, a native of Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, has 42 FIRs, including three attempts to murder, registered against him in Delhi, UP and Uttarakhand.
The East Delhi district police was seeking Aslam and his gang ever since they committed a series of car thefts in the area. The investigators had obtained CCTV footage of some thefts and while analysing them the policemen had taken note of facial features of a few suspects.
Remembering these faces was helpful when some of these policemen were deployed at a picket for checking vehicles passing through Shakarpur on Monday.
“Among several vehicles stopped by the police was a Honda City whose driver’s behaviour appeared suspicious. When asked to produce documents of the vehicle, the driver began giving excuses,” said B.S. Gurjar, DCP (East).
According to the officer, the driver’s face aroused suspicion in the minds of the three policemen as they remembered seeing him somewhere.
The three of them tried hard to remember where they had seen him and within moments realised that he was the same person seen in the CCTV footage.
