On Wednesday, police said they traced all the murders to a single killer – a . 28 year old leader of carjacking gang Who searched for the victim with five companions, including his live-in partner. All the five accused have been arrested and are now in the custody of Jaipur Gurugram Police.
Police said they joined the dots after the arrest of prime suspect Vishal Yogi in Jaipur on Tuesday while probing the February 19 murder of Arjun, a cab driver whose body was found under a pothole on the Southern Peripheral Road. went. Badshapur after Gurugram.
The gang stole the car by killing the drivers, riding the book
The gang has killed four drivers since September last year. Three of them drove a cab, while the fourth was riding an Ola bike. Adarsh Choudhary, Additional DCP (Crime) of Jaipur Police said, “In Jaipur, the rider was shot in the head from the front, while the cabbies were shot in the head from behind inside their cab.” The bullet was fired by Vishal. It was the same way of working. Killing people was an accidental thing for the gang,” Chowdhury said.
Police say that this gang has been active in Gurugram-Jaipur area for many years, this gang booked cars for travel and stole them after killing the drivers. The police are hoping to solve more cases with the arrest of Vishal, who was tracked by the police from Gurugram and Jaipur in a joint operation using the GPS location of Arjun’s cab, which was stolen by the gang.
The other arrested gang members have been identified as Jeetu (19), Ravi Banjara (19), Vinod (21) Rahul (26) and Vishal’s live-in partner Rekha Rai (35). Police said Vishal and others usually traveled from Jaipur to Delhi by bus whenever they planned to steal a cab. Investigations reveal that he had hired cabs whose drivers he killed from Delhi’s IGI airport (October 5) and Mahipalpur (February 19) near Gurugram’s IFFCO Chowk (September 21). Vishal allegedly shot each of the drivers in the head from the back seat when the cabs reached the deserted area. The gang went back to Jaipur in a stolen cab. Ola bike rider was murdered on October 11.
In Jaipur, he used the cars for some other crimes committed by him, which are still being investigated, and then sold the vehicles to a scrap dealer, making the vehicles difficult to trace.
The cab he stole on February 19 had something different, a Swift DZire. Unlike the previous cars, which he stole after killing the drivers, Arjun’s car was fitted with a GPS device, which helped the police in Gurugram track the gang to Jaipur, where a raid led to Vishal’s arrest.
ACP (Crime) Gurugram Preet Pal Sangwan said Vishal was arrested on the charge of murder about ten years ago. “So far, we have got details of eight FIRs registered against Vishal in Rajasthan, Gurugram and Delhi. In 2013, Vishal was arrested in a murder case. He was released on bail in 2018, after which he He returned to crime and formed a gang. We expect his arrest to solve many other cases,” the ACP said.
According to Jaipur Police Inspector Lakhan Singh Khantana, Rekha’s husband was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Delhi last year. Vishal’s role in this case is also being investigated.
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