Print from chopped finger helps nab pickpocket

Delhi | Wednesday | 20th March, 2019

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NEW DELHI: A severed finger found at the scene of a crime helped the police track a pickpocket who went on a stabbing spree inside a running bus in west Delhi's Vikaspuri on Sunday evening. During the scuffle, Rahul slashed one of the passenger's arm but suffered an injury from his own knife. Dharambir was taken into custody first and he took cops to Rahul's shelter. After developing a fingerprint from it, cops used their database to nab two men involved in the crime.DCP (west) Monika Bhardwaj said the accused had been identified as Rahul alias Ganja and Dharambir. However, the two managed to flee.Investigators fed the fingerprint into the online system containing dossiers of local criminals and it yielded a match with Rahul..