The Delhi Police’s Special Cell has arrested 15 associates of gangster Deepak “Boxer”, who was nabbed in Mexico and brought on April 5, in the last one month.
According to police, among those arrested included two men — Mehfooz Khan alias Bhura Dalal (47) and his associate Mohd. Junaid (25), both residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad — who helped gangster Deepak get a fake passport and other forged documents to flee aboard.
The duo had facilitated Deepak to get the fake passport and other documents in the name of Ravi Antil, a resident of Moradabad. On their instance, 15 passports, seven Aadhaar cards, as many PAN cards and six voter ID cards have been recovered, police said.
Other arrested accused have been identified as Ravinder Pahal (21), Deepak Pahal (26), Vikram Dahiya (27), Sachin Mann (30), Sandeep Narwal (32), Gavin Grang (30), Amit Gulati (31), Dinesh Mathur (35), Kapil (32), Rohit (28), Vijay Mann (26), Yogesh (30) and Ankesh Lakra (35), they said.
According to police, gangster Deepak was nabbed in Mexico and brought to Delhi by a two-member team of the Special Cell and his arrest was termed as the force’s first overseas operation.
Deepak headed the Gogi gang after the murder of gangster Jitender Gogi in the Rohini court complex in 2021, they added. Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) H G S Dhaliwal said during the 14-day police remand, Deepak was interrogated at length and he disclosed his involvements in more than two dozen cases of murder, attempt to murder and extortions. “During investigation of the cases, his 15 associates were arrested,” Dhaliwal said.
During his interrogation, Deepak revealed that in 2015, he was introduced to gangster Gogi, who was then evading arrest, by Deepak Bajana. After Gogi was arrested in 2016, his associates planned to get him escaped from the police custody, the official said.
“Gangster Deepak, along with some associates of Gogi, had boarded the bus in which Gogi who was in police custody was travelling, while two cars carrying other gang members followed the Haryana Roadways bus. When the bus reached Sakol, Bahadurgarh, the two cars intercepted it. While a gang member threw red chilli powder in the eyes of police personnel, Deepak, along with others, snatched arms and ammunition from them and freed Gogi,” Dhaliwal said.
