Men who robbed pizza delivery boys at knifepoint arrested

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Men who robbed pizza delivery boys at knifepoint arrested

Tuesday, 13 November 2018 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

A gang of robbers who only targeted pizza delivery boys, finally met their match when a team of South east district police arrested three of them. With the arrest of three men, police claimed to have solved four such cases in which pizza delivery boys were waylaid and robbed at knife point.

The accused have been identified as Deepak (23), a resident of Amar Colony, Chirag Sharma (23) also of Amar Colony and Karan Mahajan (19) resident of Srinivashpuri. Police have also recovered two motorcycles, 10 mobile phones, five delivery bags, cash, two ATM swiping machines, one buttoned knife and SIM card from their possession.

" On Saturday and Sunday, three incidents of robberies with delivery boys of Zomato who were carrying orders from Pizza on My Plate (POMP) at Zamrudpur, were reported from Srinivaspuri area", Chinmoy Biswal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South-east district said,

"In all the three incidents, accused persons used to place orders to different restaurants through Zomato and then used to take delivery at isolated places. When the delivery boys used to come to deliver the order, accused persons used to rob delivery boys by threatening them with knives," said the DCP. Accordingly, police teams were pressed into service to monitor the activities of this gang and bring them to justice, he added.

"One of the accused Karan was apprehended by a police team. He was put to sustained interrogation and confessed to the crime. He also disclosed names of his associates who were arrested later," said the DCP.

"During interrogation, Karan disclosed that around six months back, he came in touch with accused Deepak and Chirag who used to live in the nearby locality. They both were also addicted to smoking and hookah. Around two-three months back, accused Deepak was arrested for car-robbery in Amar Colony and he recently came out of the jail," said the DCP.

"Accused Deepak earlier used to work as delivery boy in Amazon and Chirag used to work as delivery boy for Zomato but he was shunted out last month. Both Deepak and Chirag were well versed with the working of Zomato and delivery boys. Therefore, after coming out of the jail, Deepak alongwith his other associates in order to earn quick money planned to rob these delivery boys," the DCP said.

Explaining their modus operandi, the DCP said that accused persons used to call the delivery boys at abandoned place at G Block of CPWD quarters in Srinivaspuri as this block is vacant. As the delivery boys approached this site, accused used to rob them at  knife point," said the DCP.

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