Overview

• Lamba was arrested on July 6 by the Delhi Police Crime Branch after years of manual and technical surveillance efforts
• He is accused in four 2001 robbery-cum-murders of taxi drivers across Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, with only one body recovered so far
• Police say Lamba’s gang sedated and strangled drivers in remote hills before smuggling stolen taxis into Nepal for sale
• He evaded arrest for 24 years by changing identities, living in Nepal from 2008 to 2018 and later relocating to Dehradun while securing bail in drug and dacoity cases
• Two known accomplices are in custody, and interrogations continue as investigators hunt for additional gang members and victims