Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested a sharp-shooter and extortionist wanted in two cases of attempt to murder on Saturday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Ram Gopal Naik, said the accused has been identified as Abhishek Yadav (30) alias Monu and one loaded countrymade pistol was recovered from his possession.
The accused has been absconding since the end of May this year. A team was constituted to make all possible efforts to establish their hideouts and to apprehend him.
For his apprehension, a number of suspected hideouts in Delhi, West UP and Haryana were raided and on some occasions and he narrowly escaped. While working in this area the team started tracking Yadav, wanted for two day light sensational cases of attempt to murder. To arrest him, a number of suspected hideouts in Delhi, UP West and Haryana were raided. His movements were being tracked down regularly by the officials.
Finally, on July 7, a specific information was received that the accused would come near Bus stand, Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar, GT road, Delhi to meet his acquaintance for further search of new hideout.
"On this information, the team immediately swung into action and laid a trap near the place of information and at about 2.15 pm, the accused was arrested with a loaded country made pistol of .315 bore," said the DCP.
During investigation, the accused confessed that on May 22 at Samaipur Chowk in Delhi, he alongwith his associates namely Ram and one other associate, brutally beat up Amir Ali and that too in a broad public view. Monu also fired two rounds with a countrymade pistol causing gunshot injuries on his abdomen, threatening to kill him to prove their supremacy in the area, said the police officer.
"Monu further confessed that on June 2, he alongwith his associates namely Rohit, Umed, Rahul and Ramu Gujjar, forcefully entered to the office of M/s Kamal Builders in Kirari in Delhi and brutally beat up one Tula Ram and his aide Bablu. They caused multiple injuries to the both all over the body beating mercilessly and also ransacked the articles lying in the office," the DCP added.