STF arrests four shooters in Udham Singh Nagar hired by local gangster to kill rival
Friday, 31 March 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) in a joint operation with local police arrested four shooters from a rented room at Kichha in Udham Singh Nagar on late Wednesday night. The shooters were allegedly hired by a local gangster Gagandeep Singh to kill one of his rival gang members Simranjeet Singh, said the senior superintendent of police of STF, Ayush Agrawal. He said that the STF received a tip-off on Wednesday that some criminals have been living in a house near Kali temple in Kichha area with some weapons in their possession and might commit a serious crime.
Acting on the information, the STF contacted the local police and surrounded the said house from all sides and arrested four criminals hiding in a room on the second floor of the house, said Agrawal. The authorities also recovered three pistols and a large quantity of cartridges from their possession as per the SSP. The accused revealed during the interrogation that they were called in Kichha and hired by a local gangster Gagandeep Singh alias Ratanpuria to kill his rival Simranjeet Singh. They had planned to kill Simranjeet on the weekend but they failed. They were once again planning to kill him in a hotel both the authorities nabbed, said Agrwal. He said that arrested accused Taushif Ahmad (19) Vipin Thakur (21), Kashif (29) and Rahul Srivastave (31) are residents of Udham Singh Nagar districts.
Several complaints were registered against them in various police stations too and they have gone to jail multiple times too. The SSP also commended Constable Gurwant Singh who played a crucial role in nabbing the accused. Agrawal said that STF had just started keeping an eye on local gangs as per the orders of director general of police Ashok Kumarin order to prepare a data of top 50 criminals of the State to monitor the developments related to them when they received information about the arrested shooters. He said that authorities are still looking for Gagandeep.
