A day after four bike-borne armed assailants robbed off Rs 88 lakh from a cash van in Damodar Park area of Dilshad Garden in East Delhi, police are yet to make any significant headway in the case.
Police have recorded the statements of a number of people, including the four employees who were in the cash van, senior employees of CMS company and the employees of the Wine shop where they had come to collect the cash.
Investigators are also checking their call records and past history. Dump data (details of all mobile numbers which were active in the area at the time of the incident) has also been collected and it is being analysed, said a senior police official.
Four teams of Crime Branch and three teams of local police are investigating the case. A number of raids were conducted in various areas of Delhi and NCR. Police said that it has found substantial clues and are working in that direction.
Police have also recovered the CCTV footage which shows that the assailants came on bikes wearing helmet and committed the crime. Police suspect that the bikes too were stolen ones.
The incident took place yesterday at 2:15 PM when the cash collection van belonging to CMS company reached a government wine shop situated in Damodar Park area between Mansarovar Park metro station and Jhilmil metro station on the G T Road.
As one of the custodians of the van Paramveer went to the wine shop to collect cash, four men arrived on the spot on two bikes were wearing helmets. One of the robbers pointed a gun at the van's guard Sukhbir while another at custodian Mahesh Chand and driver Ranjeet.
They then took away the keys of the van and fled with the cash trunk which approximately had Rs 88 lakh, police said.
