Taxi driver, friends rob businessman at gunpoint in North West Delhi, arrested after 2 days
According to Delhi Police, four masked men, armed with pistols, allegedly held the electronics store owner and son hostage at their house in Mukherjee Nagar and fled with Rs 1.5 lakh cash and gold bangles on Sunday.
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After the incident, Jatinder lodged a complaint at the Mukherjee Nagar police station around 11.30 am, stating that he was robbed at gunpoint. (representative image)The Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a taxi driver and three of his friends who allegedly robbed a businessman in North West Delhi of cash and gold a few days ago.
The four masked men — Kamal Raj, 22 Ashok Kumar, 26, Surat, 22, and Rocky, 26 — armed with three country-made pistols, allegedly held Jatinder Singh, who runs an electronics store in Mukherjee Nagar, his teenage son, and maid hostage at his house and fled with Rs 1.5 lakh in cash and two gold bangles on Sunday morning.
“The accused asked the hostages to stay put or risk losing their lives. One of the men went to the room where the valuables were kept and got hold of the items. They then fled from the house,” a police officer said.
After the incident, Jatinder lodged a complaint at the Mukherjee Nagar police station around 11.30 am, stating that he was robbed at gunpoint.
A police officer said that Kamal had contacted Ashok Kumar, a wrestler who had given cardio lessons to the family of Singh, to know where the businessman had kept the valuables in the house.
“Ashok Kumar was doing the recce of Singh’s house and had informed Kamal about the cash and jewels in his house. But they were not proceeding with the plan as they were working on an escape strategy,” a police officer said.
A team led by Inspector Rajesh Shah, SHO, Mukherjee Nagar, tracked the car used in the crime using the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras. “The number plate was put on the Vahan app, which showed that it was registered for a 2011-model Verna. The police followed the car’s trail and found that it had not been on the roads since 2021. But the number plate was found to have been used since early 2025. CCTV footage showed that the accused moved towards Delhi Cant and Hauz Khas. They were finally arrested from the MIS unit area on Tuesday,” a police officer said.
Kamal told the police that he had been operating his brother’s taxi for the past six months. “He acquired the number plate in January and decided to use it for the robbery. The accused spent the amount on luxuries, but the bangles have been recovered,” a police official said.
Singh ran his store in Lala Lajpat Rai Market in North West Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar, the police said.
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