Siblings arrested for killing two drivers in robbery bid

New Delhi: A 22-year-old man along with his sister have committed robbery and murder of two drivers in different places in the city. Police have arrested the accused near Japanese Park.

During the interrogation, the accused has disclosed that he did not have any job and to fulfil their financial requirement, they committed the crime.

Police identified the accused as Shiv Kumar and his sister Neelam. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer North) Gaurav Sharma claimed that on February 12, one missing case of Sanjay, who was an auto driver, was reported in Bhalswa Dairy police station, whose body was found in a field of village Ramjanpur on the same day.

In another incident, on February 14, a missing case of one Pritam Singh, a DTC driver posted in Wazirpur depot was registered in Keshavpuram police station and on the same day, Chauhan's body was found in Haryana.

The arrest was made by the team of special staff Outer North District constituted under the leadership of Inspector Ajay Kumar. DCP Sharma stated that in both the incidents, the victims were having vehicles which were found in the surrounding area of Bakhtawarpur village. It was presumed that the assailants may be connected with the area.

"In fact the car of one of the victims was found in Bakhtawarpur. Intensive screening of person living in nearby streets was done. More than 100 suspects were interrogated and later, arrested the duo," said DCP Sharma.

Police claimed that the sister used to lure or entice the victim and the brother used to pressurize and extort money.

In one incident, they hired an auto rickshaw and when they reached Ramjanpur village, they assaulted the auto driver and with the help of chunni and knife, auto driver was murdered by them and robbed his articles.

After the murder, they left that auto as abandon at GT road near Splash Water Park.

In another incident, they were roaming in the area of Rohini to commit robbery. At about 9.30 pm, they took lift from a car driver from Madhuban Chowk and when they reached in the area of Alipur village, they assaulted the car owner and with the help of electric wire, he was murdered by them inside that car.