Delhi Police Special Cell arrested a sharpshooter after a brief encounter in Rudrapur area of Uttarakhand. Jarnail Singh, alias Jelly, of Jitender gang was wanted in a sensational murder case in Mahendra Park area in Delhi and also for opening fire at Haryana Police last year. Police had kept a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his arrest.
“On August 11, we received a specific information that Jarnail Singh has been spotted in Rudrapur area of Uttarakhand. Acting upon this information, a team of Special Cell immediately rushed to Rudrapur, Uttarakhand and shared this information with the local police. Subsequently, a team of Special Cell officials including staff from local police conducted a raid at village Bichai, Jarnail Singh sensed the presence of police in the area, came out of a house in the field and started to run towards open field. He was asked to surrender after disclosing the identity of police party. Instead of surrendering he took out a fire arm and fired at Police officers, when they had started to chase him. One of the team members also fired in self-defense as a result of which Jarnail Singh got injured. Subsequently, he was apprehended and a pistol and 3 live cartridges were recovered from his possession. The injured criminal was immediately shifted to nearby hospital for medical treatment and later on to a Hospital in Haldwani. The Hospital at Haldwani referred him to another hospital and he was shifted to a Super Specialty Hospital in Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh," said PS Kushwah.
Police said that Jarnail Singh is the main sharp shooter of Jitender alias Gogi gang, which had rivalry with another local gang being led by one Sunil alias Tillu of village Tajpur in Delhi.
The rivalry between Gogi and Tillu gangs started in 2013 during the Student Union college elections of Delhi University. Many killings and counter kills have been reported as fall out of this bloody gang rivalry. Jitender alias Gogi, is carrying a reward of Rs 2,00,000.
He escaped from the custody of Delhi Police in Bahadurgarh, Haryana with the help of his gang members when he was being taken to attend a court hearing in Haryana. Since, the escape of Jitender alias Gogi, the gang has committed several heinous crimes.