NEW DELHI: Straight out of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, those two men from west Delhi made a residing thru a military of children who would scouse borrow high-end bicycles for them in return for chocolates.
Just like the fictitious character Fagin in the vintage tale, Ramesh (62) and Chander Prakash (52) would give little regard to the well-being of the children from the within sight slums, whom that they had educated to scouse borrow with out getting spotted. In a span of simply 60 days, the gang of minors had stolen no less than 35 pricey bicycles throughout west Delhi.
DCP (west) Monika Bhardwaj stated that both the accused are scrap sellers and a dozen stolen bicycles were recovered from them.
The gang came at the law enforcement officials’ radar after a spate of identical thefts was reported from quite a lot of societies and public parks. The complainants advised law enforcement officials that the thieves simplest centered their bicycles which value above Rs 5,000.
Investigation in the cases published that the crimes had been being committed by youngsters elderly 12-15 years outdated. The local informers had been requested to gather information in regards to the minors.
After speaking to some of them, the law enforcement officials were given to find out about their handlers and a team raided their hideout in outer Delhi’s Sultanpuri, the place the duo was found with a dozen stolen cycles. They confessed to the use of the children to scouse borrow items.
Interrogation published that the duo would trap youngsters from poor families to work for them. They would tell the minors that they might be given the food in their choice and new clothes after each and every a hit activity. The parents of those youngsters had been found to be unaware of the thefts.
The two men would themselves take the minors around and show them learn how to ruin the locks of the bicycles and learn how to journey them with out arousing suspicion.
Later, small teams could be despatched to housing societies and parks the place other folks would come on their cycles. The youngsters would then unexpectedly journey away with them. The thefts had been reported from housing societies of Janakpuri, Tilak Nagar, Punjabi Bagh and Safdarjung Enclave.
Just like the fictitious character Fagin in the vintage tale, Ramesh (62) and Chander Prakash (52) would give little regard to the well-being of the children from the within sight slums, whom that they had educated to scouse borrow with out getting spotted. In a span of simply 60 days, the gang of minors had stolen no less than 35 pricey bicycles throughout west Delhi.
DCP (west) Monika Bhardwaj stated that both the accused are scrap sellers and a dozen stolen bicycles were recovered from them.
The gang came at the law enforcement officials’ radar after a spate of identical thefts was reported from quite a lot of societies and public parks. The complainants advised law enforcement officials that the thieves simplest centered their bicycles which value above Rs 5,000.
Investigation in the cases published that the crimes had been being committed by youngsters elderly 12-15 years outdated. The local informers had been requested to gather information in regards to the minors.
After speaking to some of them, the law enforcement officials were given to find out about their handlers and a team raided their hideout in outer Delhi’s Sultanpuri, the place the duo was found with a dozen stolen cycles. They confessed to the use of the children to scouse borrow items.
Interrogation published that the duo would trap youngsters from poor families to work for them. They would tell the minors that they might be given the food in their choice and new clothes after each and every a hit activity. The parents of those youngsters had been found to be unaware of the thefts.
The two men would themselves take the minors around and show them learn how to ruin the locks of the bicycles and learn how to journey them with out arousing suspicion.
Later, small teams could be despatched to housing societies and parks the place other folks would come on their cycles. The youngsters would then unexpectedly journey away with them. The thefts had been reported from housing societies of Janakpuri, Tilak Nagar, Punjabi Bagh and Safdarjung Enclave.
Delhi: Fagin’s twist turns kids into thieves
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Reviewed by Kailash
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April 14, 2019
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