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Suspected member of Neeraj Bawana gang injured in encounter

The kingpin of the crime, Bhanja is presently lodged in Mandoli jail and is operating the nexus from there.

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The spot where the encounter took place during the wee hours
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An encounter broke out between the Delhi Police and a wanted criminal of the Naveen Bali alias Naveen Bhanja gang in South Delhi's Sarai Kale Khan area in the wee hours of Thursday. Saddam Husain was shot in the leg when he tried to fire at the police party and later taken into custody. The kingpin of the crime, Bhanja is presently lodged in Mandoli jail and is operating the nexus from there.

According to the police, on July 25 they were informed about a man being shot at by two persons in South Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur area. A police team reached the spot and were informed that two persons aged around 22 arrived on a scooty and fired four rounds near a house in the Aliganj area. The victim Vijay Singh was sitting outside his house and sustained gunshot wound and was rushed to AIIMS Trauma Centre.

Initially, Singh did not disclose much about the incident but the following day he told the police that he had received a call on his mobile phone on the same day wherein the caller introduced himself as Naveen Bali alias Naveen Bhanja, nephew of dreaded criminal Neeraj Bawana. Bhanja asked Singh to give protection money. Later the police received an information that Sunny a resident of the Kotla Mubarakpur area had given information about the victim to another person identified as Subek Singh alias Shibbu who is an accomplice of Bhanja. Bhanja had called up the victim in order to extort money from him and later asked Saddam Husain and another juvenile to attack him and fire upon him to scare him.

"Several raids were carried out and Sunny was arrested. He told the police that the attack was carried out by Saddam and the juvenile also accompanied him. He further revealed that it was Subek Singh an associate of Bhanja who had informed him about the victim. The juvenile was later apprehended from Jangpura area where he stayed with Saddam. The juvenile informed the police that he had carried out the crime on the directions of Subek. Subek was arrested from Mussoorie on Wednesday," said Devesh Chandra Srivastava, Joint Commissioner of Police, Southern Range.

The police received a tip-off that Saddam would be passing through Ring Road from the Pragati Maidan side. On the instance of the secret informer, the road in front of Sarai Kale Khan bus stand was blocked to apprehend him. The suspect noticed this and tried to flee after taking a left turn but his motorcycle slipped on the footpath. He was asked to surrender but, he got up and fired at the police team deployed at barricades. The police officials were wearing a bulletproof jacket and were saved. Finding no way, after giving him the warning a police officer fired aiming at his feet. A bullet hit his left leg below the knee and he fell down.

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