The Special Task Force (West) of the UP police on Tuesday night arrested five alleged shooters of the Sundar Bhati gang after a brief exchange of fire in Greater Noida.
The accused were arrested from Murshadpur village in a joint operation conducted by STF and teams of Eco-Tech 1 police station.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (STF) Rajkumar Mishra said these criminals were involved in a number of criminals cases, including murder, attempt to murder, several robbery, extortion and arms Act.
The accused have been identified as Hariya, Bunty Sharma, Azaad, Anil alias Goli and Brajesh Sharma and they all hail from Haryana, Delhi, Greater Noida’s Dadari.
“They had planned to escape Kalu Bhati from the police custody who was to be produced in the district court in Narender Pradhan murder case on Tuesday. We had got a tip off that they were raising funds from their kingpins,” said DSP RK Mishra.
“Harender Pradhan was gun downed two years back by Sundar Bhait gangs and all the gangsters involved in this case have been arrested. Interrogation reveled that they were also planning to kill the counsel of Dadari’s BJP leader Vijay Pandit’s family. Naroli village head Gyanendra was also in their contract killing list. Vijay Pandit was killed by them in 2013,” DSP added. STF have recovered a 9 mm pistol, a .32 bore revolver and a .315 bore country made pistol, cartridges .