Overview

• On August 1 at Shadipur Flyover, three men smeared with ash and dressed in saffron robes robbed a woman’s gold and diamond ring from her Rapido taxi
• Investigators used CCTV footage to trace the getaway auto-rickshaw and arrested driver Vinod Kamat near Ashoka Park Metro before detaining Birju, his son Kabir and goldsmith Gurcharan Singh in coordinated raids
• Gurcharan Singh admitted buying the stolen ring for ₹26,000, melting it and handing over the gold and 61 diamond fragments
• Police recovered the auto-rickshaw, the suspects’ religious attire and a make-up kit used to create their holy-man disguise
• A fifth suspect, Amar, remains at large as officers expand inquiries into the group’s possible links to other traffic signal thefts