Delhi: 3 arrested for Rs 15 lakh robbery on Dwarka Expressway
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi Police has arrested three men for allegedly robbing a person of Rs 15 lakh on the Dwarka Expressway and recovered Rs 11.96 lakh of the stolen money, officials said on Sunday.
A PCR call regarding the incident near Delhi Apartments, Sector-22, on the Dwarka Expressway was received on April 6, following which a case was registered on April 9, they said.
During the investigation, a team analysed CCTV footage, tracked mobile locations and worked with local informers to identify the suspects.
The first accused, Sandeep (29), was apprehended. During interrogation, he disclosed the involvement of his associate Santosh Mehto (29), who was later arrested from a hotel in Nangloi, a senior police officer said.
"An amount of Rs 10 lakh from the robbed money and a mobile phone purchased from the proceeds of crime were recovered from Mehto," the officer said.
Further investigation led to the arrest of the third accused, Suraj Sonkar (23), from the Sadar Bazar area. Police recovered Rs 1.96 lakh from his possession and identified the scooter used in the commission of the crime.
In total, Rs 11.96 lakh of the robbed amount has been recovered, the officer said.
Further investigation is underway to ascertain if the accused was involved in similar cases, police said.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
