The Delhi Police has arrested four members of a gang for their alleged involvement in a shootout in northeast Delhi’s Jafrabad earlier this month in which four people were injured.

According to the police, the shootout that occurred on June 5 was the fallout of a turf war between two gangs. The accused — Gosh (22), Anas Iqbal (29), Shaved (26) and Shahzad (35) — were sharpshooters of a gang run by gangsters Hashim Baba and Suhail, they said.

Four men owing allegiance to a gang run by Ifran alias Chennu were attacked by some men carrying sophisticated weapons, they said, adding the incident was recorded on CCTV cameras installed in the area.  Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav said the accused kept changing their locations in Delhi and western Uttar Pradesh.

Upon receiving information that the accused would gather at a shelter for the homeless in the Welcome area, a trap was laid the four accused were nabbed, the police officer said.  The weapons used in the Jafrabad shootout were also seized from them, he said.

During interrogation, the accused revealed that the shootout was carried out on the directions of Suhail. Those injured in the Jafrabad shootout were members of the Chennu Pehalwan gang. They had gone to collect money from satta operators from whom gangster Hasim Baba was extorting money to let them run their rackets, said the special commissioner of police.

According to the police, Shahzad had given shelter t the shootout accused for eight days before the incident and also after it. He also took the accused to his native village, they said. “When our team reached the village, they got to know that the accused persons had returned to Delhi. When the news emerged that the shootout victims were injured but alive, the accused were tasked with killing them,” the police official said. Police have recovered five firearms and 15 cartridges from the accused.