58-year-old held for theft at AAP office

New Delhi: A 58-year-old man was arrested for his alleged involvement in a burglary at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) office at Rouse Avenue in Central Delhi. 

The incident took place on Saturday early morning when a vagabond managed to sneak inside the office and made away with the campaign materials. However, he ran out of luck as the theft was captured on CCTV camera. 

The arrested, Mohd Qazim, was identified on the basis of a CCTV footage which was shared by a complainant with the police at the Indraprastha police station.

“A complaint of theft was submitted at the Indraprastha police station along with the CCTV footage on Saturday night,” the AAP leader said. 

An officer privy to the probe said that the face of the accused was not visible in the footage. However, on the basis of the physical appearance of the accused, five to six people were rounded up and Qazim was nabbed from Kamla Market.

Surtan (22), a scrap dealer, was also arrested for buying canopies sold to him by Qazim.

Earlier on 12 October, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s blue WagonR car was stolen from outside the secretariat and was found abandoned in Ghaziabad two days later. The following day, Mr Kejriwal wrote to the lieutenant-governor, saying that the theft of his car pointed towards the rapidly “deteriorating” law and order situation in the national capital.

The WagonR was registered in the name of AAP and was being used by the party’s media coordinator, Vandana. It was earlier used by Mr Kejriwal. Even after he became the chief minister in December 2013, he refused to use an official car and preferred his old WagonR.

In December last year, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s office in Vinod Nagar area of his Patparganj constituency in East Delhi was burgled. The thieves decamped with two computers, a letter pad, hard disk, documents, and the digital video recorder of a CCTV camera among others. The burglars had entered the premises by breaking the lock of the office.