Accused Inderjeet, Dinesh, Fayyaz, Vijay and Vinod were arrested by a police team near Bhalaswa Jheel while carrying the stolen scrap in a tempo to sell it to a buyer, on November 8, said Ravindra Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police(Crime Branch).
The Crime Branch team also recovered 3 tonne of the stolen aluminium scrap which is estimated to be worth Rs 4 lakh, he said.
Accused Dinesh and Vijay had alongwith their other associates allegedly committed murder of a watchman Jagdish at DSIDC, Sector-I in Bawana with iron rod during a theft in 2010. They were arrested and facing trial in the case, he added.
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