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Mohali police team waited for 5 hours

MOHALI: In the shootout at Dwarka, New Delhi, yesterday, the Mohali police team kept waiting for notorious gangster Sampat Nehra for over five hours near the hideout of the miscreants there.

Mohali police team waited for 5 hours

The five members of the Lawrence Bishnoi-Sampat Nehra gang, who were arrested in New Delhi. A Tribune photograph



Tribune News Service

Mohali, November 22

In the shootout at Dwarka, New Delhi, yesterday, the Mohali police team kept waiting for notorious gangster Sampat Nehra for over five hours near the hideout of the miscreants there.

The team, which got success in nabbing five gangsters along with 17 firearms and 112 cartridges after an operation lasting half an hour in the main residential area of Dwarka, had a tip-off that Nehra would visit the house in which the gangsters were putting up. However, Nehra did not turn up and the team decided to start the operation, said sources.

Nehra is the right-hand man of Lawrence Bishnoi, a notorious criminal lodged in a jail at Jodhpur. In Bishnoi’s absence, Nehra was running the gang, which had over 15 members, said the police. 

The sources said a 15-member team, led by Mohali DSP (Investigation) Kanwaljit Singh, reached Dwarka around 6 am. 

“The team members remained in their vehicles, which they had parked near the house of the miscreants, and kept waiting for Nehra. The team also kept watching the movements of the five gangsters present in the house. Some of them also came out of the house to fetch certain things/eatables. As Nehra did not turn up till 11 am, the team members decided to start the operation,” said the sources.

During the half-an-hour operation, a total of 21 shots were fired by both parties. While nine shots were fired by the gangsters, 12 shots were fired by the police team in retaliation. 

The police arrested five gangsters — Deepak from Hisar, Naresh, alias, Sumit, alias Arjun, from Abohar, Tiku from Delhi and Krishan and Sunil, both from Jhajjar, and recovered 17 firearms (five .32 bore pistols, five .315 bore pistols, five .22 bore pistols, one .315 bore rifle and one .12 bore rifle) with 112 cartridges from their possession.

The Delhi Police, which have registered a case under Sections 307, 353 and 186  of the IPC and under the Arms Act on a complaint of Mohali DSP Kanwaljit Singh at the area police station in Dwarka, on Wednesday produced the accused in the court, which remanded Naresh in one-day police custody and the remaining four in judicial custody, said Delhi Police Inspector Anil Barewal. 

Production warrants

The Mohali police will apply for production warrants of the gangsters on Thursday in a court in New Delhi.

1 gets police remand, four judicial

The Delhi Police, which have registered a case under Sections 307, 353 and 186  of the Indian Penal Code and under the Arms Act on a complaint of Mohali DSP Kanwaljit Singh at the area police station in Dwarka, on Wednesday produced the accused in the court, which remanded Naresh in one-day police custody and the remaining four in judicial custody, said Delhi Police Inspector Anil Barewal.

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