The Special Task Force (STF) of the Haryana police on Monday morning arrested the State's most wanted criminal Kaushal, who was brought at Indira Gandhi International Airport following the Red Corner notice issued by the Interpol at the behest of Haryana Police in February 2019.
According to the police the immigration department had informed Haryana Police about Kaushal after her arrived at IGI airport. A team of Special Task Force (STF) including Inspectors Pradeep, Sandeep Dhankar and Jasbir reached the airport and arrested Kaushal and brought him to Gurugram. Kaushal was produced before a local court and remanded to 7 days police custody.
The wanted criminal Kaushal had been arrested in Abu Dhabi of United Arab Emirates (UAE) on August 17 by the local authorities on the request of the Indian Government. Haryana Police had approached the Union Home Ministry after which details were sent to the UAE via Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and a lookout notice was issued by the Interpol.
A police team of Haryana Police had got in touch with Interpol in Dubai to collect more information about the dangerous criminal. The investigation team had kept a close watch on his movements and all his gang members operating from different parts of the state.
Kaushal had jumped parole after coming out of Bhondsi jail in December 2015 and had been absconding since then. The gangster was wanted in more than 200 alleged cases of extortion, murder, attempt to murder and kidnapping in Gurugram, Faridabad, Rewari, Jhajjar, Palwal and Rajasthan.
Kaushal is a notorious gangster of Gurugram involved in over 100 criminal cases including murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, extortion and running betting rackets in Gurugram. Gurugram Police has initiated an operation against Kaushal and his gang and managed to arrest over 20 people, including his girlfriend and wife who were also involved in criminal activities. It has around 250 members who were mostly engaged in extortion.
"The investigation team has also recovered Rs 14 lakh, 12 mobile phones from his possession, which includes mobile SIMs from other countries including Dubai and Thailand, two passports one is Indian and other is from Spain. Among the 14 mobiles found from Kaushal, there are 4 virtual numbers which he used with the help of software. He used these numbers through the software, asking for extortion, threatening and contacting his gang members to instruct them. The STF team is collecting more information about these numbers," sources said.
It has been revealed that Kaushal was living in the name of Naresh Yadav in Dubai, while his name is Harish in the Spanish passport. Kaushal had got an Indian passport from Alwar in Rajasthan through his henchmen.
According to sources, after he was arrested from Dubai with a fake passport, the Dubai government cancelled his fake Indian passport and deported to India. The accused was arrested around 3.30 am and brought to Gurugram, police said. Kaushal is wanted in over 100 criminals cases carried a reward of Rs five lakh.
Commissioner of police Faridabad KK Rao who also holds additional charge of (IG) STF, Haryana, said,"The accused has been arrested from the airport and taken on remand. The call details of the mobile received from the accused are being investigated".