<p>A gang of four persons, including a 20-year-old woman, has been arrested for robbing a Japanese national at Paharganj in central Delhi, police said on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Yuka Umakoshi, 24, a Japanese national from Hiroshima Prefecture, told police on May 6 that a man had run away with his handbag after it fell from a cycle-rickshaw he was traveling on.<br /><br />“The bag contained his passport, two credit cards, an iPod; Rs 5,000, $100 and 10,000 yen in cash, a camera and a cellphone,” said Devesh Chandra Shrivastva, additional deputy commissioner of police (central).<br /><br />During initial investigation there was no clue about the suspects, so police deployed their sources and collected intelligence on criminals in the area.<br /><br />“We found that Satish, 26, Ravi, 28, Arjun, 21, and Sonam, 20, could be involved in the case. They were arrested on a tip-off,” Shrivastva added. They then confessed to the stealing.<br />They were also involved in two other robbery cases — reported by Uttam Bera on Wednesday and Santosh Kumar Jha on Friday.<br /><br />Police have recovered Yuka’s passport, Rs 2,930, $43 and 2,000 yen from the gang.<br />“We have Uttam Bera’s ATM card and PAN card, and Santosh Kumar Jha’s voter ID card. We also recovered a country-made pistol and two cartridges,” Shrivastva said.</p>
<p>A gang of four persons, including a 20-year-old woman, has been arrested for robbing a Japanese national at Paharganj in central Delhi, police said on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Yuka Umakoshi, 24, a Japanese national from Hiroshima Prefecture, told police on May 6 that a man had run away with his handbag after it fell from a cycle-rickshaw he was traveling on.<br /><br />“The bag contained his passport, two credit cards, an iPod; Rs 5,000, $100 and 10,000 yen in cash, a camera and a cellphone,” said Devesh Chandra Shrivastva, additional deputy commissioner of police (central).<br /><br />During initial investigation there was no clue about the suspects, so police deployed their sources and collected intelligence on criminals in the area.<br /><br />“We found that Satish, 26, Ravi, 28, Arjun, 21, and Sonam, 20, could be involved in the case. They were arrested on a tip-off,” Shrivastva added. They then confessed to the stealing.<br />They were also involved in two other robbery cases — reported by Uttam Bera on Wednesday and Santosh Kumar Jha on Friday.<br /><br />Police have recovered Yuka’s passport, Rs 2,930, $43 and 2,000 yen from the gang.<br />“We have Uttam Bera’s ATM card and PAN card, and Santosh Kumar Jha’s voter ID card. We also recovered a country-made pistol and two cartridges,” Shrivastva said.</p>
