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When cops faced identity crisis
Police arrested Sunny for robbery, but were deceived by him a day before.
But, as things turn out, the arrest has exposed chinks in the police functioning. The same accused had managed to deceive the cops about his real identity when they had arrested him a day earlier.
Police sources said Sunny Kapoor was nabbed by Sector 39 police for "loitering under mysterious circumstances".
He said he was Vicky Malhotra, and gave a wrong address in Sector 22. The next day, he was released by the SDM, and his real identity remained hidden.
However, Sector 17 police arrested him only a day later on robbery charges. It's then that the truth came out. "We were stunned to see his photograph as he was the same man arrested by us. It is embarrassing," a Sector-39 police officer said.
Neither SDPO, south, DSP KIP Singh nor Sector 39 SHO Inspector Nanha Ram could be contacted despite repeated attempts. Their mobiles remained switched off.
"While on the one hand, the incident exposes shabby functioning of the police, on the other, it highlights their unprofessional conduct in dealing with Section 109 of CrPC," said a legal expert.
Section 109 is for preventive arrest of those who try to conceal their identity with the purpose of committing some crime. The police have often been accused of rounding up innocents under this section to make their figures.
Kapoor is now cooling his heels in Burail jail. He was convicted by a local court for murdering a man while committing a robbery but he claimed, when he was questioned by the Sector 17 police, that the Supreme Court had acquitted him later. His claim, however, could not be verified, the police said.
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