New Delhi, Sep 2: Police have arrested three people with the help of Paytm transaction from Rajasthan for allegedly robbing two men in Delhi's Paharganj area, officials said on Friday.

The two had robbed the men of jewellery worth Rs 6 crores after throwing chilli powder in their eyes. The accused have been identified as Nagesh Kumar (28), Shivam (23) and Manish Kumar (22), all residents of Najafgarh, they said. A video of the incident is being circulated on social media. In the video, two men, one in police uniform, can be seen walking in a street. After a point, they stop two persons. In the meantime, two more men join them. They then throw chilly powder in their eyes and flee with the parcel. Police got information regarding the incident on Wednesday. Complainant Somveer said he works as a parcel delivery boy in a parcel company in Chandigarh, police said. On Wednesday around 4.15 am, he, along with his colleague Jagdeep Saini, picked up the parcels from their office in Paharganj and was going towards DBG road. When he reached near Millenium hotel, they saw two persons present there, a senior police officer said. One of them was wearing a police uniform, they said, adding that he asked for their bags for checking. Meanwhile, two more persons came and they threw chilli powder in their eyes and threatened them to hand over the bag to them or else they will kill them. The accused robbed their parcels consisting of jewellery and fled from there, police said. During the investigation, police checked over 700 CCTV footage of the last seven days when the incident took place and also gathered local intelligence near the spot. The activities of four persons near the spot appeared suspicious, the officer said. It was found that the accused persons were talking to a cab driver and one of them had transferred Rs 100 to the account of the driver through Paytm in exchange for cash for buying tea, Deputy Commissioner of Police (central) Shweta Chauhan said. The transaction was analysed and the culprits were identified as the residents of Najafgarh, she said. Police found that the accused had gone to Rajasthan. A team was sent to Jaipur and three persons were arrested. A total of 6,270 grams of gold, three-kilogram silver, 500 grams of gold deposited in IIFL and 106 raw diamonds with other diamond jewellery all worth Rs 5.5 to six crores were recovered from their possession, the DCP said. Further, efforts are being made to identify the remaining culprits. Nagesh, the mastermind of the robbery, planned to commit the crime with his friends and maternal uncle, they added.

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New Delhi(PTI): Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has resigned as the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, sources said on Saturday, a day after he filed his nomination papers for the AICC president's election.

Kharge's resignation, which the 80-year-old leader sent to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is in line with the party's declared 'One person, One post' principle that was announced at the Udaipur 'Chintan Shivir' in May.

The resignation letter was sent by Kharge last night, the sources said.

Senior leaders P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh are learnt to be the front-runners to take on the mantle of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha.

The stage was set on Friday for a contest between Kharge and Shashi Tharoor for the Congress president's post. Kharge, a Dalit leader from Karnataka has emerged as the clear favourite.

The third candidate in the fray, K N Tripathi, a former Jharkhand minister, is considered a lightweight for the contest.

Kharge, Tharoor and Tripathi filed nominations on the last day of the process which saw the AICC headquarters come back to life after a long time, with workers swarming the complex.

Kharge, flanked by top Congress leaders, has filed 14 sets of nomination papers with the proposers including Ashok Gehlot, Digvijaya Singh, A K Antony, Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik and members from the G-23 ginger group comprising Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Hooda, Prithviraj Chavan and Manish Tewari.

 India, citing the "totality of the evolving situation," has abstained on a UN Security Council resolution, vetoed by Russia, that would have condemned Moscow's illegal referenda and declared its annexation of four Ukrainian territories as invalid.

A 10-year-old boy, who was assaulted and sodomised allegedly by his three friends in northeast Delhi's New Seelampur area, died at a hospital here on Saturday, police said.

The second day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka got a dash of the recent, controversial ‘PayCM’ drama in Chamarajnagar on Saturday.

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