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Six held for stealing export goods

NEW DELHI, JAN. 10 .Six people, who were allegedly stealing export goods from the Inland Container Depot at Okhla in South Delhi, were arrested by the Crime Branch on Friday. The police recovered goods worth over Rs. 12 lakhs at their instance.

According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Deependra Pathak, the Department received a tip-off that some people were stealing goods from the Inland Container Depot, which were meant for export. Further investigations revealed that the suspects were stocking the stolen goods in a makeshift store at Alipur in North-West Delhi.

The Crime Branch sleuths raided the store and arrested six people, identified as Harsraj Giri, Sham Lal, Vinod, Mahavir Singh, Mahender Pratap Singh and Rajesh Kushwaha. They recovered the stolen items, including 299 colour television picture tubes of Samtel and 5,968 high-quality carpets.

During interrogation, the accused disclosed that they had been running the racket in connivance with the container drivers for the past several years. The gang leaders, Harsraj and Mahavir, revealed that they used to track down containers carrying export goods, coming to the Capital from across the country. In 1998, they stole eight tons of copper from a container in connivance with its driver, Raju Bengali. They sold the copper to one Lal Kabari of Badarpur. In July last year, the accused - along with their accomplices named Vakil, Nodi and Bhura, -- stole 12 tons of threads dispatched from Phagwara to be exported to a United States-based company. The same month, they stole 2,400 bed-sheets, which was also to be exported to the U.S.

The gang members used to steal around 60 per cent of the goods kept in the containers to avoid detection. The police suspect that some transport companies and container drivers are also involved in the racket, as they pass on information about the movement of the containers to the accused. A hunt has been launched for them.

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