New Delhi (IANS) | The Delhi Police on Thursday claimed to have busted the Indore-based ‘Tala Chabi’ Sikligar inter-state gang operating in the national capital. With this, the police have arrested three people. The accused have been identified as Joginder Singh, a resident of Indore in Madhya Pradesh and Kartar Singh of Parbhani district in Maharashtra. He often used to travel from Madhya Pradesh to Delhi. The accused used to stay in hotels near Old and New Delhi railway stations before committing the house burglaries.
As per reports, the police have also arrested Abhinay Soni from Barwani in Madhya Pradesh. Soni used to buy stolen jewellery. According to the police, based on the complaint, an FIR was registered on February 18.
In which the complainant alleged that jewelry and two lakh rupees in cash were stolen from his house. He had gone to Haryana to attend a marriage function when the house was burgled.
During the investigation, the police team started searching for the criminals on the basis of CCTV footage. The footage revealed that the accused changed vehicles twice, evaded through narrow lanes and adopted confusing tactics of swerving into different lanes to dodge.
The gang eventually abandoned the stolen vehicle, and used several modes of public transportation before making their way back to their hotel.
Shahdara’s Deputy Commissioner of Police Rohit Meena said that the police team mapped the spot and the routes of movement of the accused. Over 500 CCTV footage recordings were analyzed within a radius of 15 km.
With the help of CCTV footage, the team traced the thieves to their place of residence in Old Delhi. This place was 15 km away from the incident site. Subsequently, with the help of human and technical intelligence, Joginder and Kartar were identified and apprehended. On interrogation, Joginder disclosed that he operates an Indore-based ‘Tala Chaabi Sikligar’ gang and commits interstate thefts.
Joginder told police that they came to Delhi from Madhya Pradesh and stayed in budget hotels near Old and New Delhi railway stations. During the day they used to roam the streets of various colonies in Delhi as locksmiths, and when someone called them for lock repair, they used to break into the said house.
The officer said that to commit the thefts, they used to steal bikes and then use them. Apart from this, on the information of the accused, the police also arrested Abhinay, who was the receiver of the stolen jewellery. So, around 100 grams of gold, tools for repairs, duplicate keys have been recovered, the official said.
