A day after attack, gang wanted to kill rival in Mayo

Nagpur: Local crime branch (LCB) of Nagpur rural police intercepted and arrested 10 members of the Golu Maliye gang on their way to murder their rival Ganesh Meshram and his wife Priyanka inside Mayo hospital, in the wee hours of Tuesday. Meshram and his wife fighting for life with bullet injuries sustained in an attack on their rented apartment at Shriniketan Colony on Monday by the Maliye gang.
The LCB team, under SP Rakesh Ola, managed to round up the gang within a few hours of the murder attempt without any more casualties. The gang, which had gone to Parseoni for a feast and to lie low to evade arrest, was allegedly on it’s way back to the city. The gang apparently intended to enter Mayo hospital and kill the victims, as they had survived the first attack.
The gang was also planning to murder a police informer, but LCB team under police inspector Anil Jittewar, Assistant PI Jitendra Vairagade, sub-inspectors Narendra Gourkhede, Javed Khan and Sachin Mate and others managed to round them up after laying a trap near Mankapur.
It’s learnt rural police had already arrested Maliye, who had left the city and checked into a resort at Pench after hatching the plot. He had handed over the plan to Himanshu Chandrakar to execute it.
Apart from Maliye, police had also rounded up Farukh Khan and Sobin Mokode, who are also in police custody, for their role in conducting a recce and providing information about Meshram’s whereabouts.
After Maliye, Chandrakar, Khan and Mokode were taken into custody, police managed to nab the rest including Mohd Haider, who had opened fire on Ganesh and Priyanka in the presence of their five-year-old daughter. The gang had also held the firearm to the landlord’s head to silence her before heading to the first floor residence to attack Meshram.
The Meshram and Maliye gangs have been after each other for the last couple of years.