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4 persons planning to rob elderly couple arrested

One of the accused, Ram Kumar had once whitewashed the residence of the old couple and was well aware of the house. Kumar had gone to Dubai but was in debt, hence wanted to carry out the robbery

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Four persons, who were planning to rob a senior citizen couple in Kalkaji, have been arrested by the police when they were meeting to execute their plan. One of the accused, Ram Kumar had once whitewashed the residence of the old couple and was well aware of the house. Kumar had gone to Dubai but was in debt, hence wanted to carry out the robbery.

"The accused have been identified as Ram Kumar alias Sohan Kumar (31), Rohit (19), Deepak Kumar (24) and Rahul (19). They were arrested from a public park and two loaded country-made pistols with live cartridges, a button-activated knife, and a stolen two-wheeler was recovered from them," said Chinmoy Biswal, Deputy Commissioner of Police, South-East.

According to the police, an information was received on Monday that the robbers who were planning to rob a senior citizen couple in Kalkaji will meet in the park. The police reached the location and surrounded the accused and later arrested them. The Activa Scooty that was recovered was stolen from Shakarpur area.

The accused persons told the police that they were currently unemployed and that is why decided to rob a house."Ram Kumar had earlier painted the house of the senior citizen couple in 2016. In December same year, he went to Dubai for work and took a loan of around a lakh which he could not repay. He came back in July 2017," added Biswal.

Rohit, who is a local goon in the Navjeevan camp area, where Kumar also resided knew he was in debt, hence planned to rob an aged couple. Kumar told him about the house he had painted earlier and was aware of the places that they kept valuables. He was also aware that they used to keep a heavy amount of cash at their home. Later, Rohit roped in two other associates and decided to execute the plan. Deepak was earlier involved in a case of robbery in the Jaitpur area in 2015.

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