How cops honey-trapped Delhi's ‘most-wanted’ gangster

In an operation that lasted for months, Delhi Police personnel honey-trapped one of the ‘most-wanted’ gangsters of the national capital after posing as a Mumbai-based model on Instagram and ultimately lured the criminal into their trap.

The wanted gangster, identified as Manoj Kumar, alias Arjun, a native of Haryana’s Mahender Garh, has already been convicted for life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court in a ransom-cum-murder case.

DCP (Crime) Aditya Gautam said it was known that the accused Manoj was active on Instagram.

“Building on this, two of our head constables, Dinesh and Sukhbir, created a fake account on Instagram of a Mumbai-based model,” the DCP said.

The police personnel continued chatting with the accused over several weeks and finally managed to lure him to the Safderjung Enclave area of South Delhi for a rendezvous.

Expecting to meet the woman with whom he had been chatting for several months, Manoj fell right into the cops’ trap and was subsequently apprehended by the Crime Branch team. When frisked, the cops found two sophisticated .32 bore pistols and eight live cartridges.

“The accused Manoj has a long history of committing heinous crimes and was involved and wanted by Delhi, Haryana, and Rajasthan Police in several heinous cases of murders and robbery. He had killed one person in 2005 for not paying ransom and another one in 2014,” the officer said, adding that the concerned authorities have been informed regarding his arrest.