Gangster Bajrangi ‘had links with Gujjar’, aides were active in city

GURUGRAM: Dreaded gangster Prem Prakash Singh, alias Munna Bajrangi, who was shot dead allegedly by another gangster inside Bagpat district jail (Uttar Pradesh) on Monday morning, was not a stranger to the city’s criminal gangs or to the police force.
Though, according to the police records, there was no case registered against Bajrangi in the city, sources in the crime branch claimed his name had first surfaced during the probe into the murder of Delhi Police’s ACP Rajbir Singh Yadav who was shot dead in Gurugram in 2008. Further, one of Bajrangi’s henchmen was arrested in connection with the murder of a Gurugram-based property dealer in 2015.

These apart, the sources claimed, Bajrangi had allegedly been in touch with some criminals, including gangster Binder Gujjar, and his henchmen were active in Gurugram.

A cop with the crime branch said Bajrangi, who was accused in around 40 criminal cases including that of murder and extortion, had miraculously survived back in 90s. During a shootout with cops led by Rajbir Yadav, who was known as an encounter specialist, Bajrangi had reportedly taken over a dozen bullets. Assuming him dead, the police had kept his body in a mortuary for the post-mortem. But next day, when the doctor went to the mortuary to conduct the post-mortem, he found Bajrangi was breathing.

Years later, ACP Rajbir Singh, who was then posted with the special operations squad of the Delhi Police, was shot dead allegedly by a city-based property dealer in the latter’s office on March 24, 2008.

The police had suspected Bajrangi’s role in the murder but didn’t find any evidence to prove his involvement. Finally, in October 2015, a CBI special court convicted property dealer Vijay Bharadwaj in the case.

On the night of November 10, 2015, four men had shot dead property dealer Rajkumar Sethi at a petrol pump in Sector 5. Sethi was allegedly an acquaintance of gangster Sandeep Gadoli. A month later, the city police had arrested gangster Gujjar and his four aides in connection with Sethi’s murder. Gujjar had apparently claimed to have hired shooters Monu and Pawan, alias Munna, to eliminate Sethi. A crime unit officer said shooter Pawan, originally from Mathura, had earlier worked for Bajrangi. But after Sethi’s murder, he started working for Gujjar in Gurugram. In March , a city court acquitted all five, including Pawan and Gujjar, for lack of evidence.

Gurugram police commissioner KK Rao said, “As per records, he was not active here and his connections, if any, with any criminals here were not established,” Rao added.