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Gangster Mohammad Sohrab, Who Jumped Tihar Parole, Arrested in Kolkata

Police cite weeks of surveillance using app data, including checks at IVF clinics, before an arrest near Park Street.

Overview

  • Delhi Police Special Cell and Kolkata Police detained Sohrab from the Ripon Street–Park Street area on November 18 in a coordinated operation.
  • Sohrab had been on the run since early July after parole granted in late June, triggering alerts and a multi-state manhunt.
  • While hiding, he worked as an app-based bike taxi driver under a forged identity, and investigators leveraged the account’s data trail and CCTV to find him.
  • Officers recovered fake identity documents and are probing who supplied papers, shelter and funds, while mapping his movements and identifying associates.
  • A life-term convict in the 2011 Delhi jewellery robbery-murder case linked with his brothers’ gang, he was produced in Kolkata court and transferred to Delhi Police custody.