Convict arrested for robbing businessman, brother at south Delhi hotel

The suspects robbed the two brothers of ₹8,000 and property documents and tried to extort them for ₹4 crore. They also forced them to sign some documents at gunpoint, police said.

The Delhi Police on Thursday said they arrested a 48-year-old murder convict and apprehended two of his juvenile associates for allegedly holding a businessman and his brother hostage in a CR Park hotel on October 25.

Police identified the arrested man as Vinay Kumar, a resident of Dwarka Sector-3. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

The suspects robbed the two brothers of ₹8,000 and property documents and tried to extort them for ₹4 crore. They also forced them to sign some documents at gunpoint, police said.

Police identified the arrested man as Vinay Kumar, a resident of Dwarka Sector-3. They said he was sentenced to life imprisonment in a double murder case in Rohini a few years ago. Kumar was out on parole due to the Covid-19 pandemic, said deputy commissioner of police (south) Benita Mary Jaiker.

DCP Jaiker said that on Monday, the two brothers called the CR Park Police and told them that they had been robbed of money, property documents and held hostage at gunpoint at a hotel earlier in the day.

They said they had published a newspaper advertisement to sell their property in CR Park.

They were contacted by Vinay Kumar who asked to meet them on Monday at a hotel in CR Park, DCP Jaiker said. At the hotel, the brothers were threatened with guns and knives, and subsequently robbed by Kumar and the two minors. Police arrested Kumar on Wednesday near the Dwarka court, where he was on his way to attend a hearing.