New Delhi: A 58-year-old man was arrested for his alleged involvement in a burglary at the Aam Aadmi Party office at Rouse Avenue in central Delhi, police said on Sunday. The incident happened on Friday when a vagabond, identified as Mohammad Qazim, stole canopies from the office, they said.
A case was registered on Saturday, the police said, adding that the accused was identified on the basis of a CCTV footage shared by a complainant with the police.
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, he said.
Twenty-two-year-old Surtan, a scrap dealer, was also arrested for buying the canopies sold to him by Qazim.
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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.
On 13 October, Kejriwal had written to the Lieutenant Governor, saying the theft of his car pointed towards the rapidly "deteriorating" law and order situation in the national capital.
The WagonR car was registered in the name of AAP and was being used by the party's media coordinator Vandana. It was earlier used by Kejriwal.
Even after Kejriwal 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, with the thieves decamping 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.
With inputs from PTI
Published Date: Nov 05, 2017 03:03 pm | Updated Date: Nov 05, 2017 03:06 pm
