The duo have been identified as Manish Singh (41), who is involved in more than 100 robberies and other criminal cases, and Mohit Gupta (34). Days after a 40-year-old woman sustained severe injuries after she fell off a moving e-rickshaw while resisting a snatching bid in Shahdara, police have arrested two men. Investigators said they scanned over 500 CCTVs and detained and questioned more than 50 men in search of the accused.
The duo have been identified as Manish Singh (41), who is involved in more than 100 robberies and other criminal cases, and Mohit Gupta (34). Police recovered a pistol from Manish’s possession. The men confessed to their involvement in the Shahdara case, police said.
The injured woman, Ritu Kumar, remains on ventilator support. Her family said she sustained multiple injuries on her head and is undergoing treatment at Max Hospital, Patparganj.
The incident took place on Monday afternoon at Anand Vihar when Ritu and her relatives were on their way to a wedding in the e-rickshaw and two men pulled up on a bike and tried to snatch her bag. As the woman resisted, she fell off the vehicle, and the accused fled with the bag.
Police started looking at CCTVs in the area to track the men. “We mapped their entry and exit points and tried to identify them. After the incident, the men went towards Vaishali via Delhi-Meerut Expressway. The team scanned over 500 CCTVs and detained over 50 men,” said an officer.
The investigating team found that the accused would take multiple rounds near the spot and on highways to target women walking on the streets or travelling in rickshaws or autos.
DCP (Shahdara) R Sathiyasundaram said, “We knew the men would come to Delhi-Meerut Expressway after committing crimes to evade police. We sent 12 teams to the expressway and in the trans-Yamuna area to arrest them.”
On Friday, police received information that the suspects were coming from the Akshardham area to the Expressway. The teams barricaded the road, but the accused took a U-turn and went towards Yamuna bridge. Another team near the bridge was alerted and they started chasing the men. Nearly 20 minutes later, the teams nabbed the duo.
“We recovered the woman’s robbed bag and other items as well as the bike that was used in the offence. The men said they met each other in Tihar Jail in 2016. Manish is involved in several cases, and Mohit is involved in at least two other cases. He works with cab aggregators as a bike rider and had suffered huge losses during Covid. He decided to team up with Manish and rob women outside malls and highways, thinking they are easy targets,” said the DCP.
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