A 26-year-old man, believed to be a member of the notorious Gogi gang, died on the spot after being shot six occasions in Mundka on Saturday night time, police mentioned, figuring out him as Amit Lakra.
Sachin Sharma, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Outer Delhi, mentioned, “Amit Lakra was discovered concerned in a theft case and was out on bail. The investigation is underway.”
In keeping with the police, two unidentified assailants on two bikes opened hearth at Lakra close to the Mundka visitors sign earlier than fleeing. The police are taking a look at whether or not members of the Tillu Tajpuriya gang was concerned within the homicide.
The rivalry between the Gogi and Tajpuriya gangs is among the most infamous in Delhi’s historical past. Though the leaders of each gangs are useless, their members have carried out hits on one another usually over time.
The rivalry dates again to 2010, when the 2, who had been buddies, fell out throughout a scholar union election. It has claimed at the very least 25 lives, as per police sources.
Gogi was gunned down contained in the Rohini court docket in 2020. Tajpuriya was the alleged mastermind, having deliberate his rival’s killing from inside jail. Two years later, in August 2023, Tajpuriya was stabbed to demise inside Tihar Jail allegedly by members of the Gogi gang.
The newest taking pictures is the fourth in per week in Outer Delhi.
On Monday two incidents of taking pictures had been reported from two property sellers’ workplaces. Three motorbike-borne males opened hearth in Nangloi round 1.30 pm, adopted by the same incident at Alipur at 3 pm. The following day the Crime Department arrested a member of the Gogi gang and apprehended a minor in reference to the incidents.
Sanjay Bhatia, Extra Commissioner of Police (Crime Department), mentioned the person, Akash Rathore, 18, had admitted to firing the pictures at Nangloi and Alipur together with the minor as a part of the Gogi gang’s extortion scheme.
On Wednesday, a hypermarket in Paschim Vihar was attacked, and police consider it was carried out by a gang led by Kapil Sangwan, also called Nandu. The hypermarket’s proprietor had not too long ago acquired extortion calls from Sangwan, a recognized legal with hyperlinks to gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
