Dhani Ram Mittal died as a consequence of well being points
New Delhi:
From posing as a decide and granting bail to undertrials to stealing fancy automobiles for private commute, Dhani Ram Mittal had a number of capers to his title in his decades-long profession in crime.
He died on Thursday aged 85 as a consequence of well being points, police mentioned.
Named in additional than 150 theft instances in Haryana, Chandigarh, Punjab and Rajasthan, Mittal had been put behind bars over 90 occasions.
“His crime checklist is lengthy, he was instantly concerned in additional than 1,000 instances of theft, dishonest, impersonation and forgery in his lifetime,” a senior police officer, who didn’t want to be named, mentioned.
In response to police sources, Mittal was first concerned in a case of dishonest in 1964 and didn’t cease.
A senior officer of the Delhi police recalled that Mittal stole automobiles from the parking zone of Jhajjar court docket in Haryana for private use.
“After we have been studying his legal profile, we bought to know that he managed to pose as a decide for a couple of days in Jhajjar and handed orders to launch criminals serving lengthy senetences,” he mentioned.
The officer mentioned Mittal was nicely educated and had completed his BSc in firstclass from Rohtak and later went on to do LLB from Rajasthan.
“After his LLB, he labored as munshi (clerk) for various advocates. However he used to steal automobiles for his private pleasure. He additionally cast paperwork and procured a job as a station grasp and labored from 1968 to 1974. He died on Thursday, as he was unwell and suffered a cardiac arrest,” mentioned the officer.
In 2016, aged 77, he was arrested for stealing a automobile in Rani Bagh.
“This was his ninety fifth arrest,” the officer mentioned.
Mittal was creamted by his son at Delhi’s Nigambodh Ghat.
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