Police has arrested three persons in connection with highway robberies in which entire truckloads of goods were stolen by spiking food and drinks of drivers of the vehicles from the outskirts of Delhi.
A team of Crime Branch arrested a notorious highway robber Trilok Singh (41) and two receivers of stolen goods Anil (35) and Ramji Lal on a specific input, near Dhaula Kuan bus stand, said Ravindra Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police(Crime Branch).
Crime Branch was investigating activities of a gang that was involved in stealing trucks loaded with goods in Delhi NCR, Rajasthan, Haryana and other northern states. A reward of Rs 50,000 was declared on the arrest of the gang by Delhi Police Commissioner.
Two cases of robbery of goods laden trucks were reported to Crime Branch by truck drivers in February and March this year. In both cases, the drivers were offered drink and food laced with sedatives and when they came around 2-3 days later their trucks were gone.
Trilok was allegedly involved in both cases where he had befriended the drivers and after they fell unconscious after taking food and drinks offered by him, he would drive away the trucks with the help of Anil and Ramji Lal to a godown located in Jaipur where goods were unloaded and later sold to one Ramesh, added the officer.
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