Author: Staff Reporter/New Delhi
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: September 17, 2002
With the arrest of four Bangladeshi
nationals on early Sunday morning, the East district police claimed to
have solved 15 cases of robbery and burglary including one case of murder
cum robbery committed in the Vivek Vihar area in 1998.
The East district police arrested
Mohd Harun Faraji, Mohd Muneer Khan, Mohd Nazrul and Ayub Ali Khan, all
hailing from Bangladesh, when they were planning to rob a petrol pump in
the Ghazipur village in East Delhi. DCP East district, Arvind Deep informed
that a secret information was received that the gang was meeting up in
the Ghazipur jungle to plan a robbery. "A team headed by ACP Kalyan Puri
Mr Gothwal was formed and they cordoned off the entire area," added DCP.
The gang members decided to flee
but were overpowered by the police team. A loaded 'katta' (country made
pistol) of .315 bore was recovered from one of them while meat choppers
were recovered from the other three.
On interrogation, it was found that
the gang was involved in 15 other cases.