The Special Task Force, Uttarakhand, arrested a hardcore criminal, Anil Rathor, who is supposed to be close to the dreaded gangster Sunil Rathi, on Wednesday on the charge of carrying unlicensed country-made pistol. The arrested is a resident of Vikasnagar, Dehradun. It was revealed in course of his interrogation that he was involved in several crime cases, including three murders and extortion, in the past. On June 4, 2016, two unidentified persons had fired outside the house of a property dealer Mukram, resident of Kanhiya Vihar, Patelnagar. Mukram had received several calls, demanding extortion from the member of Sunil Rathi gang and threatening him of facing consequences if he failed to pay the amount. Rathor is stated to be one of the two accused. Acting on a complaint, police on June 29 had arrested a accused named Nasim and sent him in jail in connection to the case. later, SSP STF P Renuka Devi formed a team to arrest Rathor. The team members were sub-inspector RB Chamola, NK Bhatt, constables likendra Singh, Virendra Nautiyal, Kailash Nyal, Deepak Chandola and Mohan Aswal. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Rathor from Vikasnagar.
In course of interrogation, the accused is learnt to have admitted his crime and said that he had fired shots at Mukram’s house after receiving direction from a member of the Sunil Rathi Gang. He was paid Rs five lakh, it is learnt.
Investigation further revealed that Rathor is hard- core criminal allegedly associated with the murders of two persons in Vikasnagar in 2008. In 2012, he had allegedly murdered a woman in Sahaspur.