Kamla Nagar robbery: Five detained, hundreds quizzed

Five persons were detained and over hundreds questioned in connection with the daylight robbery in which a security guard was killed on Saturday morning in north Delhi’s Kamla Nagar.

Refusing to reveal their identity, the police said they have been detained for their criminal background. However, the cops are yet to establish their invlovement in the case. “All five of them are already booked for criminal charges including robbery, snatching and attempt to murder. They are being quizzed intesively”, said an investigating officer requesting anonymity.

The Delhi Police is also scanning the details of all the criminals who have been released on bail from Tihar Jail and Bhondsi Jail in Gurgaon in last three months. “Several raids are being conducted in Delhi, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Aligarh and other parts of Uttar Pradesh,” a police official privy to 

investigation said. The police have also twelve special teams investigate the matter. “So far, over hundred people, including the current and former employees of the security management company have been questioned,” Madhur Verma, deputy commissioner of police (North) said. It is important to mention that in the past three months, as many as 27 employees of the security agency left the job. The police have not given them a clean chit yet.

During the investigation it was found that the registration number of the bike used in the crime was fake. However, the person on whose name the number was registered is also being questioned. The Delhi University student, who made the video of the robbery is also being quizzed about the identity of the accused. The police is also planning to make him a witness in the case.

“As the armed robbers wore helmets, it was very difficult for the experts to draw their sketch”, the officer added. Sources in the special cell of police said the police has asked telecom service providers to give details of all the calls which were exchanged in the radius of the crime scene.  In less than one-and-a-half minutes, two unidentified armed robbers on a bike shot a cash van guard and looted Rs 1.5 crore from the staff who were loading the cash into a Citibank ATM in Kamla Nagar area on Saturday morning. It is believed that the police will announce a reward for anyone who would provide clue about the accused.