In a major achievement during the ongoing drive to nab the absconders, Special Task Force, Uttarakhand has arrested a hardcore criminal and Jeeva gang member Shahrukh Pathan, 24, native of Muzaffarnagar, from Delhi University Metro station in the wee hours of Wednesday.
Police said that the criminal has a reward of Rs 50, 000 and Rs 10,000 announced by Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand police respectively on him. Pleased with the achievement of the team, State DGP Anil K Raturi announced reward of Rs 20,000 to the team.
State additional director general of police (law and order) Ashok Kumar while addressing the media persons on Wednesday said that as a part of continuing drive to nab criminals and absconders, STF SSP Riddhim Aggarwal had formed a team and team members had been deployed in various cities of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi to arrest the criminal.
Team members were being monitored by additional SP Ajay Singh, he further informed. Acting on a tip- off, STF team comprising inspector RB Chamola, head constable PD Arora, constables Kailash Nyal, Anup Bhati, Virendra Chauhan and Mohan Aswal arrested Pathan from Delhi University metro station on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, Kumar informed.
As per police, investigation revealed that Pathan is a sharp shooter doing errands at the bidding of the dreaded gangster Mukhtar Ansari and Sanjeev Jeeva.
Police sources further said that Pathan had murdered a criminal Aasif Jayada who was in police custody at Muzaffarnagar railway station in 2015. He had also murdered Jayada’s father Yasin Jayada.
In connection with this murder case, he was sent to Muzaffarnagar jail but while in jail, he had demanded protection money of Rs 10 lakh from a Muzaffarnagar-based businessman Ahmad Ali.
He was shifted to Hardoi jail subsequently, but he escaped from police custody at Muzaffarnagar. He joined
Jeeva gang and along with his friends, he had murdered one Amit Dikshit on March 6, 2017.
He had also taken money to murder a property dealer Subhash Saini, resident of Haridwar, but due to mistaken identity, he had murdered Amit Dikshit.
Subhash Saini was having land dispute with Sanjeev Maheshwari alias Jeeva. Regarding this, a case under Sections 302 and 120b of IPC was registered against Pathan in the Kotwali city police station, Haridwar.