New Delhi, Nov 10: People who thought that the mobile phone was an easy option to create mischief or to carry out crimes, are being proved wrong with sleuths of Delhi Police cornering some of them. Standing testimony to their being tech-savvy is the recent Ansal Plaza shootout involving alleged LET ultras and the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, wherein a senior IPS officer was at the receiving end.

After a "technological investigation" based on monitoring the position of the mobile phone used by Hari Krishna, who claimed to have been present at the site of the shootout on November 3, sleuths of the special cell have dubbed his claims as false. Contradicting claims that he was present in the South Delhi shopping mall between 6 pm and midnight on that day, they said the "investigation" revealed that he was at his Greater Kailash residence at 6.25 pm, at Soami Nagar between 7.30 pm and 8.30 pm, Panchsheel at 9.19 pm and reached Ansal Plaza only at 9.32 pm, more than two hours after encounter.

A similar effort was made in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case with police tracing prime accused R K Sharma to the house of deceased Indian Express scribe Shivani Bhatnagar to further substantiate the charge of an "illicit relation" between them. A not so distant reminder of their reliance on technology is the arrest of one of the accused in the daylight robbery, wherein Rs two crore was looted from a van carrying the money from the Reserve Bank of India, Parliament Street branch to the ICICI Bank at Connaught Place.

Sleuths probing the case had taken recourse to mobile phone communications between the alleged accused to zero in on them.

Bureau Report