The Tribune, February 2, 2002

Inter-state gang busted, three held
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 1
A team of Special Cell officers busted a notorious inter-state gang involved in more than 12 cases of murder, kidnapping, extortion, criminal intimidation, rape and offences under the Arms Act with the arrest of three persons yesterday. However, the gang leader, Dharmender, managed to escape after firing at the police party. The team also seized one 0.30 bore King Cobra pistol and two 0.455 bore Webley Scott revolvers along with 18 live cartridges from them.

The other three suspects, Ashok alias Babloo (25), resident of Sonepat, Satya Prakash alias Ninu (26) and Rajesh (27), both residents of Jhajjar, Haryana, were nabbed by the Patel Nagar police and a case of attempt to murder and sections under the Arms Act was registered. Acting on a secret information that members of the Dharmender gang, active in Haryana, was in Delhi to commit some sensational crime, the special team led by Inspector Ved Prakash raided their hideout in DTC Colony, Patel Nagar and arrested three members of the gang while its leader escaped. The gang was involved in more than 12 cases of heinous crimes, said the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Mr Ashok Chand.

On interrogation, the suspects confessed to have committed the crimes and disclosed that they had come to Delhi to kill a businessman residing in Rohini as he was a sympathiser of their rival group led by Baljeet Singh, president of the truck union of Jind.