Police have arrested five members of Manjeet Mahal gang, including a woman, who had committed seven murders in the last four months and were wanted in several other cases.
The gang members identified as Vikas Dalal (27), Gaurav (23), Kaptan (22), Hemant (22) and Tikmu (23) - were arrested on June 4 from West Delhi’s Uttam Nagar, said Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell). They fired twice at police but were overpowered.
Two sophisticated semi-automatic pistols of 7.62 mm and two countrymade pistols along with 33 live cartridges have been recovered from them and a white Creta car robbed from Gurugram, Haryana, has also been seized, he said.
After the murder of Mahal’s father Shri Krishan in January this year, Mahal’s gang members have committed several murders and tried to kill members of Kapil Sangwan alias Nandu gang.
The Special Cell kept surveillance on the suspected hideouts of Mahal’s gang members for about three months. On the basis of a tip-off, a police team laid a trap in Uttam Nagar. A Creta carrying Dalal and his associates was spotted.
The police team asked the gang members to surrender but the four men started running in different directions. When they were challenged, they fired twice at the police but were nabbed after a brief chase, said the officer.
With the arrest of these gangsters, police claimed to have worked out 11 heinous cases including seven cases of murder and three cases of attempt to murder. These cases were reported between February and May this year.
Dalal’s girlfriend and accomplice, Tikmu alias Reena, is wanted in a murder case of Palam Vihar, Gurugram. Dalal used her to honeytrap a member of a rival gang.
Dalal and Tikmu met last year in November in Kullu. He asked her to befriend Rinkoo, an alleged member of a rival gang. She invited Rinkoo to celebrate her birthday in Gurugram on March 14. When Rinkoo reached near ITM University in Sector-23, he was gunned down by Dalal and his accomplices.