NEW DELHI: Three days after making a daring escape from custody at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital (GTB) hospital in Delhi, notorious gangster Kuldeep Maan alias Fajja was shot dead in northwest Delhi's Rohini area in the early hours of Sunday.
Highly placed sources confirmed that a fierce gunfight had broken out inside a house around 1.30am when a team led by DCP Pramod Kushwaha and ACPs Lalit Mohan Negi and Hriday Bhushan conducted a raid.
Fajja opened fire at police with automatic weapons and was killed in retaliatory firing.
On March 25, amidst high drama in the premises of the (GTB) hospital, Delhi Armed Police (DAP) personnel shot dead a criminal and injured another after they tried to free an inmate from their custody on Thursday noon.
The inmate, Kuldeep Maan alias Fajja, had been brought to the GTB hospital for a checkup.
The criminals, who came in a Scorpio SUV having a police sticker, first opened fire in the air and then threw chilli powder at the cops and tried to free Kuldeep but cops recovered quickly and shot at two of them, killing one of them in the process.
The accused then fled in different directions, leaving their Scorpio behind.
The inmate managed to flee in the melee and a manhunt has been launched for them.
According to police, Fajja was brought to the hospital for treatment at the OPD.
Incidentally, he was also brought to the hospital on Wednesday.
He had been visiting the hospital for his abdominal issues multiple times in the last couple of months.
While a team of four policemen were escorting him out, another cop was finishing the paperwork formalities inside.
When they reached near the outside building, around 10-15 men tried to fire while one of them caught a cop from behind.
As this cop tried to retaliate and remove his service pistol, it got locked and meanwhile, he asked the other cop to open fire.
At least 20 rounds were fired, 12 from the policemen escorting Fajja.
In the commotion, Fajja along with his associates managed to flee while two of his associates sustained bullet wounds.
The deceased identified as Ravi Malik, sustained a bullet wound on his chest and collapsed while trying to flee towards Gate number-1. His associate Ankesh who sustained two bullet wounds on his abdomen fell near the waste plant and is undergoing treatment.
Two of the accused ran towards Gate number-7 of the GTB hospital where they intercepted a man identified as Kapil Yadav who had come from UP for his pregnant wife’s check-up.
The duo then pushed the couple and pointed a pistol at Yadav and robbed his motorcycle.
While leaving they fired three rounds in the air and fled.
Luckily, his pregnant wife did not sustain any injury.
Another family member accompanying them was also safe.
Vinay Pal, who runs a chole-kulcha stall and an eyewitness to the motorcycle robbery incident said “I was carrying out my usual work when we heard the chaos and firing. Immediately all of us tried to run for shelter but in the meantime, two men rushed out and pushed a man who was about to sit on his motorcycle. The man was with two women, including his wife, who was pregnant and she was pushed as well. The man fell down and was pointed a pistol at soon after which the two accused fired in the air and fled on the bike. Some of us shut our shops for a while".
Police recovered around four pistols from the crime scene and some clothes and weapons from the Scorpio.
Investigations revealed that the Scorpio car had a fake Delhi number plate and the owner was traced in Haryana.