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Wednesday, Oct 19, 2005

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Five held for robbery

NEW DELHI: Five persons have been arrested by the Special Staff of the South Delhi police for allegedly committing a robbery in the house of 80-year-old Harbhajan Singh, former Director (Civil Aviation), at East of Kailash in South Delhi on October 7. The police have recovered firearms, jewellery worth Rs. 50,000 and other robbed items.

Following investigations into the incident, the Special Staff, led by Inspector Rajender Singh, arrested the accused at Aastha Kunj in Lajpat Nagar on Monday. Those arrested have been identified as Allauddin alias Raju, Arun, Nisar, Prem and Sahil. Apart from firearms and jewellery, the police also recovered a robbed mobile phone, a wristwatch and one stolen motorcycle from the accused.

During interrogation, the accused allegedly confessed to having committed the crime. The police said Allauddin had roped in his four associates to earn quick bucks as his Chinese food outlet in Masjid Moth, South Delhi, was running in loss. On the fateful day, they barged into the house around 11-30 a.m. and tied up all the inmates of the house at gunpoint. They then took away at whatever jewellery and other articles they could lay their hands upon.

Gangster held

NEW DELHI: An alleged gangster wanted in several cases of murder, robbery, carjacking and other heinous cases has been arrested by the Special Staff of the South-West Delhi police.

According to the police, the accused Suresh Tyagi, a resident of Sonepat in Haryana, was arrested following an exchange of fire at Dwarka in South-West Delhi on Monday. The police recovered a country-made revolver (having "Made in England" marking) and live cartridges from him. The police have also recovered a brand new Santro car, which he had robbed from Noida a few days ago.

The police said Suresh, a close associate of notorious gangster, Hemant Sonu, was trying to collect extortion money on his behalf from various businessmen in South-West Delhi. Hemant is on the run following his involvement in a double murder case of Najafgarh.

Earlier, the police said, Suresh had entered the world of crime in 1998 when he, along with his associates, had robbed a roadways bus at Garhmukteshwar in Uttar Pradesh

Infant kidnapped

NEW DELHI: A 40-day-old baby girl went missing from Sucheta Kriplani Hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday. An unidentified woman, aged around 50, is the prime suspect.

According to the police, Naveen Jha, a bookbinder and a resident of Inderpuri in South-West Delhi, had come to Sucheta Kriplani Hospital for a medical check-up of his wife, Anju, around 2 p.m. His three children, seven-year-old Pooja, a two-and-a-half-year-old boy and the 40-day-old baby girl, were also with him. When Anju and Naveen went to the gynaecological ward along with the children, the guards told them that they could not take the children inside. Naveen then handed over his baby girl to Pooja and asked her to stay in the corridor and take care of her younger brother also.

A few minutes later, the infant began crying. Even as Pooja tried to clam her down, an elderly woman came there and offered to help. She took the infant from Pooja and asked her to go inside the ward and call her father. An unsuspecting Pooja went inside to call her father. But when she returned, the woman and the baby girl were missing.

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