After a brief encounter, the Delhi Police on Thursday arrested a 40 year-old man who was involved in 113 cases of murder, attempt to murder, dacoity, robbery, snatching, robbery, Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and Arms Act. There were cases registered against him in every corner of the national Capital. The accused who committed his first crime in 1994 was also declared a ‘Bad Character’ (BC) by Delhi’s Anand Parvat police station.
The accused has been identified Raju Khandelwal alias Hakla, a resident of Raghu Nagar near Sagarpur area, Delhi. According to Rajiv Ranjan, Additional Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, a tip off was regarding Hakla that he would come from Kapashera-Bijwasan Road to Dwarka link road via Krishana Greens farm house, Pushpanjali, Kapashera, New Delhi in a Maruti Swift Car.
“Acting on the tip off, a trap was laid near Pushpanjali in Kapashera and around 3 am accused was intercepted and was instructed to surrender. But instead of surrendering, the accused fired upon the police team and tried to flee from the spot. In retaliation the police team also fired up shots in the air and the accused was overpowered by the team,” said Additional CP.
“In May-2018, the accused had come out of jail and started demanding protection money from the criminals and persons who were involved in illegal activities in Sultanpuri, Mangol Puri, Aman Vihar, Anand Parwat, Sagarpur and Dabri area,” said the Additional CP adding that police team were “A case under section 186/353/307 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 25/27 Arms Act has been registered at Crime Branch police station. Police have also recovered one country made pistol along with one live cartridge and an empty bullet shell from the possession of the accused.
The accused is being interrogated for his involvement in other cases and further investigation is going on,” said the Additional CP.