The Special Task Force (STF) of the Haryana Police has arrested two dreaded criminals, Rajiv, alias Boby, and Sumit on Wednesday. Rajiv was wanted in several cases of heinous crimes and was carrying a reward of Rs2 lakh on his head.
The duo was involved in half a dozen cases of murder, kidnapping, dacoity and attempt to murder in Bahadurgarh. Two 9mm foreign made pistols and six live cartridges have been recovered from their possession. Boby was in jail in 2010 and came out on parole but did not return, the police said.
Following a tip-off, the STF team arrested Rajiv a resident of Bahadurgarh and Sumit hails from Delhi on Wednesday from Gurugram's Rajendra park area. When they were planning to commit another crime.
During the preliminary interrogation, Rajiv confessed his involvement in cases of murder, attempt to murder and kidnapping which he had committed in 2002 to 2006 in Bahadurgarh. He had kidnapped Aman Jain a Rohtak based businessman and allegedly demanded Rs 1 crore ransoms from him.
He was serving life imprisonment in the said case.
While his accomplice Sumit was involved in rape and murder case. He had kidnapped a woman in 2004 from Jhajjar district in Haryana and later kills her when her family failed to give him ransom amount.
“Rajiv was come out parole in 2010 for 42 days but did not return. During his imprisonment, he met another criminal Ishwar Singh. Who had supplied Italy and USA made pistols to them. He was changing his locations to avoid his arrest,” the police said.
“The duo was one of the most wanted criminals. Several other cases are also registered against them, regarding murders, attempts to murder, extortion, rape, loot and dacoity including Arms Act. They will be produced before the district court for questioning further,” Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Satish Balan, said.