BASIRAN, 62

The mother of eight is on the run after her name cropped up in a murder case. She has cases of extortion, robbery and selling illicit liquor registered against her in many police stations.

Her six sons, including a juvenile, have allegedly been involved in 99 cases of murder, robbery, extortion and theft and other heinous crimes. Within days of coming out on bail in September. Basiran allegedly took a contract of ₹60,000 from a woman, Munni Begum, to murder her brother.

Police found the burnt and decomposed body of the man in a wooded area in Sangam Vihar. Police said Begum had contacted Basiran’s jailed son Rahul Khan’s gang members and paid them ₹42,000 to murder her brother. Begum, along with three others, was arrested on January 10 while Basiran and her husband are absconding.

A native of Rajasthan, Basiran started selling illicit liquor in south Delhi’s Sangam Vihar. Police have also accused her of being part of water mafia in Sangam Vihar, one of the country’s largest unauthorized colonies, where she sells water drawn through illegal borewells.