Hindustan Times (Amritsar)

Trio involved in Gurgaon bakery shootout in police net

- HT Correspond­ent htreporter­s@htlive.com

GURGAON: Three persons who allegedly orchestrat­ed an attack on a prominent bakery in the city on December 13 were arrested by the police on Wednesday.

According to the police, the three of them are repeat offenders based in Gurgaon and are allied with a dreaded gangster, Ashok Rathi, who is currently lodged in Jhajjar jail.

The three members were identified as Sure nd er, D harm en der, alias Dheeraj, both residents of Is lamp ur, and Ne e raj, alias Ba ba, of Rewari.

Two pistols, a countrymad­e pistol and six live cartridges were recovered from the accused on their arrest.

On December 13, one of the accused had fired a shot at the accountant of H ari sh Bakery and before that, he had slipped a piece of paper into the bakery, on which a threat had been issued in the name of gangster Ashok Rathi.

Sum it K uh ar, deputy commission­er of police( crime ), said that the anti-snatching team of Sector 39 crime branch arrested them from Raj iv C ho wk on Wednesday when they were planning to escape to another area.

“The accused have confessed to their role in the shoot-out at the behest of their gang leaders, who wanted to ex tort money from the owners of Harish Bakery,” he said.

The police said that Neeraj fired the shot at the bakery while D harm ender waited for him outside the shop to ma kean escape.

Informatio­n about the accused was also obtained from Ashok Rat hi, who was brought on a production warrant by the G ur ga on police. Apart from Rat hi, the G urgaon police have also pointed to the involvemen­t of two other gangsters — Anil Kakdola and Dheeraj Nakhdola — in the incident, as the accused carried out the firing to intimidate and threaten the owner of Harish Bakery.

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