Police on Friday produced gangster Akhilesh Singh and his wife Garima before the court and prayed for remand.
Wanted in over 50 cases of murder and extortion, Akhilesh and Garima, arrested from a guesthouse in Gurgaon on October 12, were produced before the court of first class judicial magistrate Pragya Bajpai in connection with a cheating case registered with the Birsanagar police station.
Both the gangster and his wife were brought to the court at about 11.30 am from Jugsalai Police station. Akhilesh was later taken to nearby MGM Medical College and Hospital for the treatment to his injured knee. He and Garima were later sent to Jugsalai thana.
The defence pleaded with the court for better medical treatment of Akhilesh even as the prosecution sought a 10-day police remand for the gangster.
Police had brought Akhilesh and Garima to the city on transit remand from Gurgaon by the Jammu Tawi Express on Thursday late evening.
On October 12, a joint team of Jharkhand and Haryana police had arrested them from a guest house in Gurgaon. Akhilesh had sustained bullet wounds on both the legs in a retaliatory fire and was admitted to hospital. He and Garima, were later sent to Bhondsi jail in Haryana.
Besides Akhilesh, his wife Garima Singh was also arrested from the guest-house where the encounter took place. She was arrested as there was a cheating case pending against her in Gurgaon.
The don Akhilesh stepped into the crime world by abducting business man Om Prakash Kabra on July 21, 2001. After his name figured in the Kabra abduction case, he surrendered in the court on August 6, 2001. He fled from the judicial custody on February 18, 2002.
He was arrested from Varanasi on October 7, 2004. On September 2, 2007, he was granted a parole for attending his ailing mother.