New Delhi, Jul 07: Delhi Police today claimed to have cracked several cases of snatching with the arrest of a 25-year-old man allegedly involved in over 100 such cases and said to have amassed huge property using looted materials. Shahnawaz Khan, the accused residing in east Delhi”s Laxmi Nagar, was allegedly involved in the robbing of a woman news editor of Press Trust of India (PTI) in broad daylight in May and S K Arora, Special Magistrate of MCD in March, police said.
“We have arrested Shahnawaz Khan from Laxmi Nagar area yesterday. He is involved in more than 100 cases.
From the looted material, he has amassed huge property by purchasing flats and plots in Delhi and NCR,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Anand Mohan said. The arrest came following investigations into a spate of robberies and snatching by two motorcycle-borne men in various parts of the capital and its satellite towns of Ghaziabad and Noida.
After one of the victims identified Shahnawaz, Mohan said, police conducted a raid in Shakarpur area on June 29 but he and his associate managed to give the investigators a slip. “A search was conducted in all the lanes and by lanes of Shakarpur and the motorcycle used in the crimes was found in a lane in Kishan Kunj of Lakshmi Nagar.
He escaped from his residence there also,” Mohan said. Yesterday, police again received an input that some criminals involved in snatchings would assemble near Walia Nursing Home in Laxmi Nagar which led to the arrest of Shahnawaz.
—-PTI–