Surendra Matiala murder case: Police crackdown on gangster Kapil Sangwan leads to six arrests in Delhi-NCR

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Wednesday carried out raids at multiple locations in the city and National Capital Region (NCR) to search for associates of gangster Kapil Sangwan, also known as Nandu.
Six people were arrested and 20 were detained during the operation.
The action was taken following the recent arrest of six people, including two juveniles, in connection with the murder of Delhi BJP Kisan Morcha leader Surendra Matiala in Bindapur's Dwarka. One of the shooters arrested in Chandigarh was associated with the Kapil Sangwan gang.
Deputy commissioner of police M Harhsa Vardhan said that 21 teams comprising 300 police personnel conducted simultaneous searches at 15 locations in Delhi and six in Haryana. The raids targeted Kapil Sangwan's gang and his associates.
As a result, 20 people have been detained and six arrested for various offences under the Arms Act and the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act based on the recovery during the raids and searches. Previously, a murder case was registered in Bindapur police station in connection with the killing of a man named Surender.
Eight people were arrested in the case. Wednesday's raids were also connected to this case as Sangwan is alleged to be involved in the killing, he said.
Inputs suggest Sangwan, who has been declared a "proclaimed offender", is currently hiding abroad, the officer added.
The arrested during the raids were identified as Nitin Narulla, Nikhil, Rajpal, Deepak, Mohit and Jitender Dahiya, police said, adding Deepak, Nikhil and Nitin were found involved in other criminal cases as well.
During the search operation, a bullet proof Fortuner car, three pistols with seven rounds of ammunition, Rs 20 lakh cash, 22.4 grams heroin and 73 grams amphetamine were seized from various locations, the DCP said.
In Haryana, police raided the hideouts of the gangster and his associates in Jhajjar, Sonipat, Bahardurgarh and Mahendragarh, another official said.
Matiala's killing, which took place at his office in the Bindapur area on April 14, appears to be a desperate act by Sangwan, suspected to be abroad, to assert his presence in the area and revive his dwindling group, police said earlier.
The search operation was carried out a day after jailed gangster Sunil Baliyan alias Tillu Tajpuriya, an accused in the 2021 Rohini court shootout in which gangster Jitender Gogi was killed, was stabbed "92 times" with improvised knives allegedly by four members of the Gogi gang inside the Tihar Jail.