The sweeping drive, conducted by 848 personnel, targeted organised gangs involved in extortion, armed crime, drug trafficking, robbery and snatching across Delhi–NCR.
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Delhi Police’s Northern Range arrested 16 gangsters and notorious criminals during a night-long operation spanning three districts, Outer North, Rohini and North-West, an official said on Friday.
The sweeping drive, conducted by 848 personnel, targeted organised gangs involved in extortion, armed crime, drug trafficking, robbery and snatching across Delhi–NCR.
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The raids, carried out under the supervision of Hareshwar Swami, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer North), Rajiv Ranjan (Rohini), and Bhisham Singh (North-West), and the overall leadership of Special CP (Law & Order Zone-I) Ravinder Yadav, covered 152 hideouts in Delhi and Haryana.
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Police said the operation disrupted multiple syndicates, including the Gogi and Tillu Tajpuriya gangs. A total of 18 pistols and country-made weapons, 43 live cartridges, a magazine, ganja, Rs 10.09 lakh in cash, 122 mobile phones, wireless sets, three two-wheelers and two cars were recovered.
Notably, officers seized a bulletproof Mahindra Thar and a bulletproof Scorpio-N linked to gang members.
In the Outer North District, with 400 personnel deployed, Outer North teams raided 50 premises, arresting 11 gang members, six from the Gogi gang and five from the Tillu Tajpuriya gang.
A bulletproof Scorpio-N used by gangster Sumit, alias Fimmi, was seized after he escaped a police chase, abandoning the vehicle in Rohini.
In Rohini District, twelve teams apprehended six criminals, including members of the Gogi, Tillu, Rajesh Bawania, Sonu Dariyapur and Neetu Dabodhiya gangs. Four others, including two Gogi gang members, were arrested under the Arms Act. A bulletproof Mahindra Thar was seized, along with arrests in snatching and NDPS cases.
Meanwhile, in the Northwest district, raids at 90 locations led to arrests under the Arms Act, with the recovery of eight pistols and 30 cartridges.
Another operation by Ashok Vihar police station busted a mobile theft syndicate, arresting three habitual offenders and recovering 103 stolen phones, a country-made pistol and a stolen motorcycle.
Police revealed the gang’s sophisticated modus operandi, including digital theft through breached phone locks and cross-border smuggling of devices to Nepal.
Issuing a public advisory, police urged citizens to abandon predictable phone passwords, citing rising financial fraud facilitated through weak screen locks.
Investigations are ongoing, with police tracking the handler responsible for transporting stolen phones to Nepal.
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