Six shooters of Kaushal gang held, cops claim to solve over 12 cases

Gurgaon: In a major crackdown on Kaushal gang, Gurgaon police arrested six of its shooters in Dehradun and IMT Manesar following a special operation on Thursday.
With the arrests, police claimed to crack around a dozen cases of murder, robbery and extortion, including the killing of property dealers Jaidev alias JD and Vijay Batra and the Pushpanjali hospital and Om Sweets firings. The six accused were committing crimes on the directions of gangster Kaushal, who is believed to be in Thailand, police said.
While Jhajjar resident Ranbir Saini (39), Jat Sahbajpur village resident Ashu alias Hukka (26) and UP residents Sushil alias Malinga (30) and Satish alias Pawwa (27) were arrested in Dehradun, Basunda village resident Sumit alias Babua (23) and Khandewla village resident Gaurav alias Chintu (19) were arrested in IMT Manesar. They were produced in a city court on Friday, which sent five to police remand and another to judicial custody. Police are now interrogating the accused.
“We have taken Ranbir on police remand for six days, Satish for seven days and Ashu, Sushil and Sumit for ten days. We are interrogating them, and hope to solve many case of extortions, murders and other crimes,” said inspector Bijender Singh Hudda, head of crime unit, Palam Vihar.
Police commissioner Muhammad Akil said the operation was successfully carried out by the Palam Vihar crime unit, along with the help of other crime units in the city, after a two-month-long effort. “This is one of the biggest crackdowns on a gang. It’s a major success for us. The accused have been named in various FIRs and we expect disclosure of many other crimes. Our key target is to find the whereabouts of gangster Kaushal, so that he can be nabbed soon,” police commissioner Muhammad Akil said.
Sources said the crime units of Sushant Lok and sectors 17, 31, 39 and 40 conducted raids at various suspected hideouts of more Kaushal gang members and nabbed eight more of them late on Friday night.
Meanwhile, a video posted by one of the four accused who were living in Dehradun before their arrests has gone viral on social media. In the video, sent to a friend, the accused are seen saying that they were in Dehradun and police had come to arrest them, and that they were afraid of being killed in a gunfight with police. They are also seen pleading to be let off and offering to surrender. Police said the four men were living in a rented house in Dehradun and came to Gurgaon only for the “assignments” given to them by Kaushal, who contacted them via Facebook messenger, to evade suspicion.