Gangster Deepak arrested: He will be questioned in connection with his criminal activities.
New Delhi:
One of India’s most wanted fugitives, Deepak “The Boxer”, was caught by police officials in Mexico, officials said. He was brought to New Delhi on Wednesday.
A two-member team of Delhi Police’s Special Cell landed at Terminal 3 of Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 6 am today with Deepak en route from Mexico to Istanbul.
Police said he would be questioned in connection with his criminal activities and alleged involvement in the murder of a builder in North Delhi’s Civil Lines area.
The gangster, who won a national-level boxing championship, was trying to enter the US illegally through Mexico and planned to run his organized crime syndicate in Delhi and neighboring states before being caught, a senior police official said. Had been.
Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) HGS Dhaliwal said the gangster took several routes and stops to reach Mexico via the US (the “donkey” method).
But he fell into a trap laid by them with the help of the Office of the Legal Attache, US Embassy, New Delhi.
This was the first time that the Delhi Police arrested a gangster in an operation outside the country.
The police had announced a reward of Rs 3 lakh for information leading to the arrest of Deepak, who led the Gogi gang, allegedly linked to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.
“We got information in January that Deepak had got a fake passport made in the name of Ravi Antil from Bareilly to flee the country. He flew from Kolkata to Dubai. From Dubai he went to Almaty, Kazakhstan and reached Turkey.” After this he left for Spain.
“Our teams were constantly tracking his routes,” he said at a press conference held on Tuesday.
They said the Delhi Police zeroed in on the gangster’s hideout in Cancun, a city notorious for human traffickers and drug mafia, after questioning several of his associates and using technical information.
Dhaliwal said, “His intention behind reaching Mexico was to reach the US with the help of human traffickers, where he would join his other associates. From there, he planned to run his organized crime syndicate in Delhi and neighboring states.”
Police said his arrest was the result of coordinated efforts by the Crime Branch and the Special Cell.
He said the gangster is wanted in 10 sensational cases including murder and extortion in the last five years in India.
Deepak, a resident of Ganaur in Sonipat district of Haryana, led the Gogi gang in September 2021 after its chief Jitendra Mann alias Gogi was killed inside the Rohini court premises by two men.
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