Cops create digital map to trace Jaguar

NEW DELHI: In what is becoming a familiar modus operandi, armed robbers drove away with a Jaguar XF from south Delhi’s R K Puram area late on Friday night by first banging the luxury car from behind with their sedan and then holding the driver, who had come out to inspect the damage, at gunpoint .The Jaguar’s driver, Jhonu, was on his way to a mall in R K Puram, as instructed by the car’s owner, businessman Ankush Malhotra. Jhonu said he had just taken a turn from Africa Avenue to Venkateshwara temple in R K Puram, when a car hit the Jaguar from behind.“A white Hyundai Verna banged the car. I got down to check the damage and confronted the driver. The driver too came out and initially apologised. When I asked him to pay for the damages, he suddenly pulled out a gun,” Jhonu said in his statement.Before Jhonu could react, another man came out of the Verna and threatened him. He then snatched the keys of the vehicle and got into it. As per the complainant, the men also tried to push him into the Verna but he managed to escape. The duo then drove away with both the cars.Jhonu told cops that he quickly took a ride from an incoming Maruti Eeco and tried to follow the Jaguar but lost the trail. He then got off at a fuel station and called up the cops. He also informed Malhotra about the carjacking.Malhotra told TOI that he had gone to meet his friends at a hotel near Qutub Minar on Friday night. At midnight, they decided to head to Sangam Courtyard and Malhotra asked his driver to bring the car from the parking.The Jaguar driver told Malhotra that it would take him some time to reach the hotel to pick him up. “Since there was a jam in the area, my driver told me that it will take around five to seven minutes for him to bring the car. I decided to go in my friends’ car and asked my driver to directly come to Sangam Courtyard,” Malhotra said.After conducting a preliminary probe and verifying the statements of the driver, a case under sections of robbery was registered on Sunday.The driver has given the details of the white Hyundai Verna, whose last four registration digits were reportedly ‘6579’. The registration details are being verified with the transport authorities.The driver told cops that the duo was well dressed, with one of them wearing a blazer.CCTV footage from the area is being scanned and a digital map is being constructed to trace the direction in which the cars went.