Gurgaon: A youth was arrested on Sheetla Mata Road on Monday night with the
police claiming to have found a major lead with regard to a number of recent cases of robbery and snatching in the city.
Police said the 20-year-old with multiple names —
Sunil, Motu, Sandy etc. — used to work at a shop in
Sadar Bazaar during the day and, along with his
gang members, would target lone commuters on deserted city streets at night.
Elaborating on the
modus operandi, police said the gang, which comprised three more members, would offer lift to commuters waiting for transport at night and then rob whoever get into their car of money and other valuables at gunpoint.
On June 6, Sunil and his gang members had picked up a Delhi resident from near Iffco Chowk and snatched his purse, ATM card and two mobile phones. In his complaint, Arvind Kumar, a supervisor at a Sector 18-based logistics firm, had claimed that the criminals had given him a lift in a Maruti Ertiga. When he got into the car, three-four people were already sitting inside who later held him hostage at gunpoint and snatched everything. They also thrashed him and forced him to share the PIN of his ATM card, which they later swiped at a wine shop and an ATM.
Believing that Sunil might hold key to more such unsolved incidents that took place in the past few months, police produced him in a city court and took him on three-day remand.
During interrogation, Sunil also said the car used for robbing commuters belonged to one of the gang members who would run it as a taxi during the day. Police said all the four gang members were migrants who did menial work and lived as tenants in the city. Sunil and another member are originally from UP, while the remaining two are from Bihar.
“We are questioning him to recover stolen items. Also, our teams are conducting raids, along with Sunil, at suspected places to nab other members of the gang. All of them will be arrested soon,” said sub-inspector Sandeep Kumar, in-charge of the anti-snatching team, Gurgaon.