Upswing in crime over past 24 hours

The number of isolated crimes have increased as well, with personal rivalry being cited as the motive in most cases. In Gandhinagar, a 60-year-old shopkeeper, Ramesh Chand, was found dead at his dhaba this morning. The incident was reported after his son opened the door of the dhaba around 6 a.m.

Ramesh had died after someone struck his head with a blunt object. The cash box was reportedly missing. The police suspect that one of his employees is behind the incident. The youth who was employed only a few days ago is absconding.

Yesterday, a three-year-old girl, Reshma, was beaten to death by her father Riazuddin at Nehru Vihar in the Gokulpuri area. According to the police, the girl was suffering from diarrhoea and had loose motions during her sleep.

This enraged her father who picked her up and thrashed her in the morning. The girl collapsed and died. The police have arrested Riazuddin and registered a case of murder.

An unidentified 45-year-old man was found murdered on the Gurgaon road near the 35 Infantry brigade on Tuesday evening. According to the police, there were stab injuries all over the head and body. A case of murder has been registered at the Delhi Cantonment police station.

In another incident, an employee of of a private company in Vasant Vihar, T. S. Sharma, was robbed of Rs 5 lakh when he was returning home after withdrawing the money from a bank last evening.

The police said that three motor-cycle borne youths had stopped the auto-rickshaw in which Sharma was travelling before taking away the bag containing the money.

A similar incident was reported from Vivek Vihar earlier in the day. Three unidentified youths smashed the windshield of a Maruti car in Vivek Vihar before escaping with Rs 2.5 lakh.

This incident came less than 24 hours after a similar one was reported from Anand Vihar on Tuesday.

In the Vivek Vihar incident, three youths arrived in a Maruti Van, smashed the windshield of Sanjay Kapoor’s car and took out the bag containing the money. Kapoor was not present at the time of the incident.

Businessman Ajay Kumar was shot at and robbed of Rs 2 lakh in Anand Vihar when he was on his way to meet his lawyer. Ajay, like Kapoor, had withdrawn the cash from a bank in the area. And both were being followed by the robbers.