DELHI POLICE HEAD QUARTER: NEW DELHI 26 NOV.2024
• AI TECHNIQUE WAS USED IN IDENTIFICATION OF ACCUSED FOR REMOVING THE MASK OF CCTV FOOTAGE PHOTOGRAPH.
• SNATCHING CASE WORKED OUT WITHIN FEW HOURS OF REGISTRATION OF THE CASE BY THE STAFF OF PP AHATA KIDARA, PS SADAR BAZAR.
• THE SNATCHED MOBILE PHONE OF THE COMPLAINANT RECOVERED FROM HIS POSSESSION.
• CLOTHES WORN BY ACCUSED AT THE TIME OF COMMISSION OF THE CRIME WERE ALSO RECOVERED.
• THE ACCUSED IS A HARDCORE CRIMINAL WITH HISTORY OF INVOLVEMENTS IN THREE OTHER CRIMINAL CASES OF ATTEMPT TO MURDER, SNATCHING AND THEFT/PICK POCKETING.
INCIDENT:
On 24.11.204 the complainant, M, reported a mobile phone snatching incident that occurred the previous day. According to the complaint, the incident took place at around 7:30 AM near Tyre Market, Pahari Dheeraj Main Road, when an unknown person approached her from behind and snatched her Vivo mobile phone. The alleged person fled towards Gali Tyre wali, Sadar Bazar.
In this regard, a case vide FIR No. 1326/24, dated 24/11/2024, U/s 304(2) BNS was registered at PS Sadar Bazar and the investigation was taken up.
TEAM & INVESTIGATION:
Keeping in view the seriousness of the offence a dedicated police team led by W/SI Neelam, (In-Charge, PP Ahata Kidara), comprising ASI Danvir, HC Maninder, HC Rohit and Ct. Sitaram was constituted, under the close supervision of Inspr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, SHO/PS Sadar Bazar and guidance of Sh. Shankar Banarjee, ACP/Sub-division Kotwali.
During the course of the investigation, technical surveillance as well as manual surveillance was mounted. The team members started working on CCTV cameras. The route of the snatcher was followed with the help of CCTV cameras and in one camera the accused was captured while running after snatching the mobile phone of the complainant, but the identity of the accused could not be established as he was wearing a mask. His mask was removed with the help of AI techniques and a blurred picture of the accused was extracted.
Further, the team members activated their secret informers. With the help of technical surveillance and secret informers, the team members succeeded in identifying the snatcher as Afnan Ali, R/o Gali Gondani Wali, Sadar Bazar, Delhi, age 23 years. The snatched mobile phone was also recovered from his possession. Clothes worn by him at the time of the commission of the crime were also recovered from his house on his instance. The snatched mobile phone and clothes were taken in police possession and the accused was arrested in the case.
INTERROGATION:
During the interrogation, the accused confessed that he had committed the snatching of the mobile phone of a lady from Tyre Market, Pahari Dheeraj Main Road, Sadar Bazar, on 24.11.2024. Further, he disclosed that he has studied up to 9th class. After leaving studies, he indulged in criminal activities. He went to jail and released from Tihar Jail on 13.11.2024 and he again indulged in criminal activities.
PROFILE OF THE ACCUSED PERSON:
• Afnan Ali, R/o Gali Gondani Wali, Sadar Bazar, Delhi. Age 23 years. (Previously he was found involved in 03 cases of Attempt to Murder, Snatching and Theft registered in police stations Sadar Bazar and Bara Hindu Rao, Delhi).
RECOVERY:
1. The Snatched mobile phone make Vivo, recovered.
2. Cloths worn by the accused at the time of commission of the crime, recovered.