According to the STF, Anil Bawariya, 38, a native of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, was arrested from the Pilakhua area of Hapur. He led the Bawariya gang, comprising eight members of his family.
Making another arrest in connection with the Jewar gang-rape and murder case, the Noida Special Task Force (STF) nabbed an absconding gangster from the Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh (UP) on Saturday night.
According to the STF, Anil Bawariya, 38, a native of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, was arrested from the Pilakhua area of Hapur. He led the Bawariya gang, comprising eight members of his family.
The police said Anil was in touch with Raju, another accused in the Jewar case, and together they planned the crime. Anil and Raju’s wife hail from the same place in Alwar.
“Anil is accused in many cases of loot, robbery and murder, apart from the Jewar murder and gang-rape. We recovered an SUV, a country-made pistol, and live cartridges from his possession,” Deputy Superintendent of Police (STF) Raj Kumar Mishra said.
The police said Anil is the son of Megh Singh, a notorious criminal who headed the Ramesh Bawariya gang, formed in the 1980s in Bharatpur. Megh was involved in loot crores worth of cash from traders in Rajasthan and UP. The police had announced a reward of Rs 12,000 on his arrest.
“Anil, then 18, wasn’t allowed by his father’s peers to join the gang. He rebelled and formed the Bawariya gang, with his three siblings and four step-brothers,” a police officer said.
Anil went to KCM School in Moradabad before joining a residential school in Mathura. He was in Class IX when he joined the gang. He first earned notoriety in 2000, when he, along with his gang members, looted Dr Khanna, a popular physician in Moradabad, and a jeweller in a single day. Dr Khanna survived with bullet shots in his belly.
Three years later, the gang waylaid a car on the Moradabad highway, shot dead two businessmen and relatives of a steel giant and decamped with valuables worth crores. “In 2007, Anil committed five murders. In 2008, he shifted to Bandsur in Alwar and started living there after buying land and constructing a house worth Rs 1 crore,” the police said.
He then put together a gang of petty criminals who would snatch chains during calendar events such as the Pushkar Mela.
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