Gang of 10 held for robbing ex-Army man's wife

New Delhi: When an ex-Army officer's wife answered the doorbell post afternoon on 25 June, little did she know that her next half an hour would be full of horror and trauma.

The men at the door pushed her inside and gagged her with a duct tape. The lady could only identify a man among the four whom she recalled to be her ex-maid's husband who was of Nepali origin. Also, one of them was her ex-servant who left 1.5 years ago. She also realised that all the four were having similar features and were of Nepali origin.

While the robbery was going on at the Army officer's house in Mansarovar Garden, he was at Nehru Place in his office. He received a call from his wife that she has been robbed by a gang of Nepali men. Soon, the police were informed about the robbery. The robbers had taken away gold jewellery worth approximately Rs 24.5 lakh, cash Rs 4-5 lakh, 2 expensive mobile phones and 2 wrist watches.

Soon, seven teams of West Delhi district were working on it under the supervision of Anil Sharma, SHO, Kirti Nagar. Clues were gathered from CCTV cameras installed in the neighbourhood.

"Our teams took screenshots of the CCTV grab of the accused. On enquiry in the neighbourhood, the identity of the mastermind was established as Manish, a resident of Nepal and all other gang members were also found to be of Nepali origin," said Vijay Kumar, DCP West Delhi.

Meanwhile, another team worked on the escape routes and information of all the Nepal borders like Tanakpur, Sunauli and Banwasa borders which could be used by the robbers to enter into Nepal via road was gathered. Also, the police teams reached the airports to check out the accused who turned out to be 10 in number including two girls.

"Our team got success when the gang was spotted boarding a bus at ISBT in the CCTV. The driver, when contacted over phone, told us that they deboarded at Garhmukteshwar. We immediately checked the private vehicles at Banwasa and arrested Manish along with his 7 associated including one of their female friends," said the DCP.

Later, two more were arrested including one more girl of the Nepali origin.