The city is both the meeting and planning point for gangs who are committing various types of crimes.
Ahmedabad is fast becoming the gangster capital of Gujarat. The city is both the meeting and planning point for gangs who are committing various types of crimes. This fact is borne out by the recent busting of several gangs by the police, and regular nabbing of persons involved in an assortment of criminal activity.
Thursday's bullion snatching in Kalupur is a case in point. Police are working on the case in which one thing stands out: Rs64 lakh could not have been hijacked in a one or two-man show. It stands to reason that a gang was closely following the activity of the courier or that the man himself was part of a gang that stole the four kgs of bullion.
Recent police raids have proved that as many as five to six active gangs have not only been come into being in the city but have also gone on the rampage. "These gangs are formed for a specific purpose and for similar intentions -- to plan and carry out a crime, especially a crime against property," a senior police officer said.
SS Khandwawala, director general of police, Gujarat state, told DNA that the police maintain a record of such gang members and keep a watch on them so that their conduct and any criminal conspiracy is followed closely.
Khandwawala further said that most of the gangs are formed in the prisons themselves. "We keep a special watch on the groups created in the prisons so that their modus operandi as well as any possible crime conducted by them when they go out of the prisons can be known and nipped in the bud," he said.
There has been a spate of crimes against property in Ahmedabad recently and almost all have been the handiwork of gangs which goes to show that the phenomena of gangland crime is here to stay.
The police have so far busted several gangs and are doing their best to ensure that these elements are not formed on a permanent basis, as is the case in some other cities, notably Mumbai. "We have started patrolling heavily, and have found history sheeters who had been a part of the gangs and who are still involved in criminal deeds," a senior cop said.
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