Man held in connection with murder of two toll collection employees

Delhi Police arrested a man in connection with the murder of two employees of the toll collection centre at South-east Delhi’s Badarpur area in a suspected robbery bid earlier this week.

The accused has been identified as one Vimal Pandey, a native of Allahabad. He was arrested from Delhi on the wee hours of Friday. The police are conducting raids in Rajasthan and Haryana to nab his associates, of whom two have been identified as Deepak and Vishal, a senior official said.

It has also emerged that two of the suspects in the case were arrested in Rajasthan in connection with robbery and murder, the official added.

The incident took place on Sunday morning when four assailants allegedly shot dead Manmohan (60) and Mahipal (50) at their rented accommodation near the toll collection centre and fled with a laptop bag. While the former worked as a cashier there, the latter was the gunman. Initially, the police received a call about a Rs 2.50 robbery but during investigation it emerged that the bag which the robbers managed to lay their hands on contained some papers and clothes.