Shooter of Pahalwan gang held with carbine

New Delhi: A 23-year-old man, allegedly one of the shooters of Anil Pahalwan’s gang, has been arrested on Thursday.

Pradeep alias Gulab Pandit was arrested from Kanjhawla-Karala Road on March 27 while he was in a stolen Toyota Etios car, said DCP(Crime) Bhisham Singh.

The team recovered a 9 mm SAF Carbine with two magazines and 14 live cartridges from his possession. The accused was planning to kill a gas agency owner of Najafgarh on the instructions of gang leaders lodged in jail, he said.

The gang leader, Anil Pahalwan alias Ganja, is currently lodged in jail in a MCOCA case of Crime Branch and even his fellow gangsters Shakti alias Sharda, Ghanshyam alias Kimi along with their associates are also in jail.

“These gangsters, who are already in jail, hatched a conspiracy to kill one Anil Kumar, owner of Ram Gas Agency, Najafgarh as he was not paying ransom amount to them despite attacks on him. In order to execute their plan, the accused persons hired two shooters from UP connected with Kaushal Gang of Gurgaon and instructed Pradeep to join them,” said Singh.

One of the other gang member Pradeep Babloo has come out of jail about a week ago and was in touch with the arrested accused. However, their plan was foiled with this arrest.

Pradeep is previously involved in two criminal cases of Haryana Police. He was arrested in 2014 by Bahadurgarh Police in a case of Arms Act along with one of his associates and later in 2016 he was again arrested.

Efforts are being made to trace the source of recovered SAF carbine.