Four members of the dreaded gang group run by notorious gangster Parveen Valmiki, who is currently languishing in Chamoli jail, were sent to jail on Saturday.
They were arrested by the Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) from Gangnahar in Haridwar on late Friday evening.
Police recovered firearms and cartridges aside from some two-wheelers and mobile phones from them. Police claimed that the quartet came to Roorkee in Haridwar district to kill a businessman on contract.
The four gangsters have been identified as Deepak Maan, Vivek Yadav, Ankur Choudhary and Deepak Sharma alias Monu Pandit.
Additional Director General of Police (law and order) Ashok Kumar, IG (STF) Sanjay Kumar Gunjyal announced, meanwhile, reward of Rs 10, 000 and Rs 5, 000 to the team for arresting the criminals.
Acting on information of four criminals roaming in Roorkee with an intention to murder a businessman, SSP STF, Riddhim Aggarwal led a team comprising STF inspector Rishi Vallabh Chamola, head constable Deepak Arora and some constables and arrested the four criminals from Gangnahar, Roorkee. The team worked under the supervision of Additional SP Ajay Singh.
While being interrogated, the arrested four accused reportedly disclosed that they did the bidding of Praveen Valmiki, Sushil Choudhary, and Rupesh Tyagi who are currently languishing in Chamoli, Deoband (Uttar Pradesh) and Almora jails respectively.
On the direction of Praveen Valmiki, they had come to Roorkee to do in a businessman, police said. It is also learnt that Deepak Man and Deepak Sharma had made an abortive attempt on the life of the owner of Ganesh Sweets in April 2017.
Besides, as directed by Sushil Choudhary and Praveen Valmiki, Vivek Yadav had murdered a businessman in Deoband in February, 2017.
Ankuar Choudhary had been arrested by STF in the past on charge of smuggling weapons, as per the investigation.