AAP MLA’s office burgled in Kalkaji, accused held

New Delhi: Within a week’s time, a second theft was reported in the office of the AAP party member where the burglar made away with LCD, computer and digital recorder. However, his stint was short lived as he was nabbed by the police, on Thursday. 

The second theft was reported from the Kalkaji office of the AAP MLA from Greater Kailash, Saurabh Bharadwaj, which was burgled on Wednesday night. 

The accused person, identified as Vishal alias Lahiri, 18, made the burglary. The burglary was discovered on Thursday when Mr Bharadwaj reached his office, located inside a community centre, and found the door open, the police said. The accused had fled with an LCD TV, a computer and a digital video recorder of the closed circuit television cameras installed in the office premises, they said.

The police did not have clues about the identity of the accused as the thieves had taken the video recorder of the CCTV cameras. 

A team of Kalkaji police station focused on the active criminals in the area and arrested the accused after sustained interrogation. The police have recovered a central processing unit (CPU), two computer monitors, one LCD and a loud hailer from the accused. 

However, the digital video recorder of the CCTV cameras is yet to be recovered, he said. Another person accompanied Mr Vishal when he carried out the burglary, the police said. 

He is also on the run and the police is looking for him. It is suspected that Mr Visha’s aide has the digital video recorder, they said.

Last week, a 58-year-old man was held for allegedly stealing canopies from the AAP party’s office at Rouse Avenue in Central Delhi area. Three scrap dealers, who were involved in buying the canopies, were arrested in the case.