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Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005

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Two held for robbing bus passengers

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Two persons have been arrested by the East Delhi police for allegedly robbing bus passengers after offering them biscuits laced with drugs. Looted articles worth Rs. 2 lakhs have been recovered at their instance.

According to the police, a young boy was found lying unconscious near Kondli bus stand in East Delhi on July 16. The police took the boy, a resident of Sonepat in Haryana, to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital. After regaining consciousness the next day, the boy told the police that he remembered taking a bus from the ISBT, Kashmere Gate for Noida. A man sitting alongside him offered him biscuits after eating which he fell unconscious. His academic certificates, a mobile phone and Rs. 1,500 in cash were missing. The police had registered a case in this connection. Acting on a tip-off, an East Delhi police team arrested two persons, Sunil Masih and Philip, on Monday. At their instance, the police recovered four wrist watches, 18 mobile phones, gold and silver jewellery, 11 pairs of trousers, seven shirts, other clothes, one passport, a camera and several other items.

During interrogation, the accused allegedly confessed to having been involved in the crime. They also told the police that they had so far looted more than 100 people in the past six years using the same modus operandi.

With the arrest of the two accused, the police claimed to have solved four such cases.

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