JAIPUR: Dholpur police has arrested four aides of dreaded criminal Keshav Gujjar for plotting to kill Congress MLA Bari Giriraj Singh Malinga on Friday after a fierce gun battle at Pyarepura area under Rajakhera police station.
Gujjar, who is wanted in several criminal activities in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, slipped from the police during a gun battle that started around midnight on Tuesday and lasted till the early hours.
Kesar Singh Shekhawat, SP Dholpur, said that intel reports informed that Gujjar along with his aides was coming to a complex in Pyarepura as part of the plan to kill the MLA and to attack police on Republic Day.
“The tip-off also said that he will be extorting money from a contractor to arrange resources for the attack. The police team fielded commandos impersonating as beggars to nab him. Gujjar, arrived at the place as expected and sensed trouble not to see any guard at the complex. He fired at one of the commandos to check whether he is a beggar or police. The fierce gun battle followed in which all the aides of Gujjar got injured. He along with one of his aides with the help of miscreants escaped from the scene,” said Shekhawat.
Police arrested four accused including his brother Chotu alias Gabbar and his cousin brothers Hari Om, Bhola, Saytaveer.
“A massive combing operation is underway to arrest Gujjar. One of the aides who escaped with him was late arrested in the combing operation.
Shekhawat confirmed that they have enough evidence to prove that Gujjar was plotting to kill the MLA. “He was under impression that Malinga is building pressure on the police to finish his gang and also many of his criminal activities were made in the Bari constituency,” said Shekhawat. Dholpur, Agra and Gwalior police has reward on him for his involvement in the criminal cases.
In the past three months, Dholpur police had a three-gun battle with the Gujjar and his gang to break his criminal network. The first encounter has taken place on November 26, 2020.
During the gun battle at Munakhuri forest, a police constable Avdesh Sharma got injured. Here Gujjar escaped while the police could arrest three aides—Bhura, Gangaram, Afsar and three others.
Exactly after a month, Gujjar came face to face with the police on December 27 GSS Pongli Road to extort money from a contactor and to kill him in a bid to spread terror in Dang region.