Over the previous few weeks, a spate of extortion calls to businessmen in Delhi and NCR had saved residents in addition to the police on their toes. Police knew that gangsters, a few of them in jail, had been behind them however couldn’t confirm how they knew whom to focus on.
Police have now solved the puzzle. It was two members of various gangs, lodged within the district jail at Rajasthan’s Dausa, who had been passing on the knowledge that they bought from a person on the skin, stated officers.
One of many males was Mehtab Kana, a member of the erstwhile Mukim Kala gang, stated a senior police officer stated Wednesday. The second was Sumit Yadav, an affiliate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
Lodged in Dausa jail, the officer stated, Kana has allegedly been offering the Lawrence Bishnoi syndicate tip-offs about businessmen who may very well be extorted in Delhi-NCR, he added.
Hailing from Balwa Gurjan village in UP’s Shamli, 31-year-old Kana — who additionally goes by the aliases Jeeva and Pradhan — has been booked in instances of homicide, try to homicide and theft in UP and Rajasthan and is serving a life time period in one of many instances, the officer added.
Police stated Kana was arrested in 2015 in reference to a November 2014 homicide. He was lodged in a jail in Jaipur until early 2023, earlier than being shifted to Dausa district jail. “Within the interim, in 2021, Mukim Kala was killed in a Chitrakoot jail throughout a gang warfare. Since then, Kana has taken cost of the gang,” the officer stated.
It was at Dausa jail in 2023, the officer claimed, that Kana allied his gang with the Lawrence Bishnoi-Hashim Baba syndicate. “Throughout this time, he got here in touch with Yadav who was initially lodged at a high-security jail in Ajmer in connection to a homicide case earlier than being shifted to the Dausa jail,” the officer stated.
Police additionally discovered that the knowledge was being handed on by Kana’s relative.
“The relative, Irfan, lived in Delhi’s Kabir Nagar. Kana requested Irfan to go to distinguished locations and markets in Delhi and get particulars of businessmen making big earnings. Irfan would get cellphone numbers of those businessmen and provides them to Kana, who, in flip, would share them with Yadav,” the officer stated, including that Yadav would then ahead the main points to Rohit Godara, an aide of Lawrence Bishnoi.
Police stated Irfan’s function got here to gentle when a faculty proprietor at Jamia Nagar filed a criticism at Shaheen Bagh police station on November 5, claiming he acquired a name from Godara demanding Rs 2 crore. “Irfan and his affiliate had handed on the main points of the college proprietor to Kana. Technical surveillance revealed Irfan used to contact Kana and Yadav in Dausa jail often,” the officer stated.
On November 30, Irfan and his affiliate had been arrested by a staff of the Particular Cell (New Delhi Vary), police stated.
This was the second businessman whose info Irfan had handed on to Godara, stated police. “In September, a denims dealer in Vikaspuri acquired an extortion name from Godara, which was additionally based mostly on Irfan’s info,” the officer stated.
Police stated Irfan (27), who was within the denims buying and selling enterprise, didn’t have a earlier prison document. “His brother is at the moment lodged in Mandoli jail, and was in touch with members of the Bishnoi-Baba gang. By means of him, Irfan bought in contact with Kana and Yadav,” the officer stated.
After Irfan’s arrest, Delhi Police has requested for manufacturing of Kana from Rajasthan, a police officer stated.
The officer stated Kana was additionally instrumental in facilitating an alliance between Mukim Kala and gangster Anil Dujana in 2015; the latter organized weapons, together with AK 47, for the gang.
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