Overview

• Officers identified Raju, Sahjada alias Golta, Md Azad and Md Ataullah alias Guddu as members of a ring that offered sedative-laced drinks to incapacitate solo travelers
• The case was triggered on July 13 when a passenger near Dhaula Kuan was drugged and robbed of his mobile phone, prompting a focused intelligence operation
• Investigators tracked stolen devices and reviewed over 30 km of CCTV footage to pinpoint the gang’s auto-rickshaw and movement patterns
• July 22 arrests yielded seven recovered phones, ten strips of sleeping pills and the very auto-rickshaw used in the crimes
• Police noted that many victims traveling to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and other North Indian destinations did not lodge complaints; authorities are now seeking additional witnesses