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NEW DELHI: A gang of six men involved in around a hundred robberies and burglaries in the past one year has been busted. The accused, suspected to be Bangladeshi nationals, had been living with aliases in northwest Delhi's Jahangirpuri and even managed to procure voter I-cards and ration cards, said the police.

The accused, Nizam, Sheikh Rafiq, Sheikh Anwar, Shabid Ali, Jainel and Riyaz used to travel in an auto through the day doing recce of locked houses, and would break into these houses at night. After committing back-to-back heists, they would return to Bangladesh or hide in remote areas of West Bengal and return to Delhi after a few days.

The police have recovered diamond and gold jewellery worth Rs 15 lakh and 20 mobile phones from the accused. Three loaded pistols , the auto used by the gang, master keys and house break-in instruments were also seized. The receiver of the stolen property was identified as Vinod and has been arrested as well.

DCP (outer) Seju P Kuruvilla said a special team led by ACP Dinesh Kumar and inspector Sukhbir Malik was formed to track the criminals. The police started looking for one single gang after finding similar modus operandi, entry and exit patterns, and appearance of suspects in several incidents.

The team then deployed sources and zeroed in on some history-sheeters in Jahangirpuri. Informers soon tipped off cops about the location of these criminals who used to call themselves members of the 'Nizam and Rokha' gang. "We received information that the gang would come to Pushpanjali Enclave via Rani Bagh in an auto. We laid a trap and arrested the accused," the DCP said.

Their involvement in at least 45 cases in the past eight months has already been determined. In south Delhi's Malviya Nagar, the gang had struck at two houses on March 13 and 15. They again targeted three houses in the area on June 5, 6 and 7. Their latest crime was an armed robbery in the same area on July 26. The accused were also allegedly involved in four burglaries in GTB Enclave - two in March and the others in June and July. The police have also found that they were behind two burglaries in Seemapuri in January.

