Over 40 Bullets Fired In Delhi Encounter That Killed 4 Wanted Criminals, Says Police

In an early shootout in the Rohini area in Delhi early Thursday, four members of Sigma and Company gang who are wanted in five criminal cases including four contract murders in Bihar were killed, the senior crime branch officers said.

During a joint operation, a Baleno car with forged registration plates, which was traveling on the way to Pansali Chowk on the Bahadur Shah Marg, was intercepted in the movement of the suspects in the city by the technical surveillance by the Delhi and Bihar police teams, after which surender Kumar, the joint commissioner of police (crime), presented the information on the shootout at the Delhi Police headquarters.

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“At 2.20 am, the team members spotted the suspects travelling in a Maruti Baleno car and asked them to surrender. Instead of surrendering, the four occupants of the car fired indiscriminately at our raiding team. Our team members retaliated in self-defence and fired back at them. All four men were injured during the exchange of fire. They were taken to Baba Saheb Ambedkar hospital, where the attending doctors declared them dead at 3.15 am,” he added.

The police officers claimed that the four criminals fired 25 rounds with five firearms, four semi-automatics and one country-made pistol, which they were carrying and the police team fired at least 15 bullets.

The four killed gangsters were known as a gang leader Ranjan Pathak (25), Bimlesh Mahto (25), Manish Pathak (33), and Aman Thakur (21). According to the police, Thakur lived in Delhi in Karawal Nagar, whereas the other three lived in Sitamarhi in Bihar.

According to Joint commissioner Kumar, it was the Bihar Sitamarhi district police which had furnished the crime branch information regarding the presence and movement of four wanted criminals in Delhi.

“A Bihar Police team was already camping in Delhi to locate and arrest the suspects. We worked on the information shared by the Bihar Police about their wanted criminals, activated our human intelligence network, and also mounted technical surveillance. It was learnt that the suspects had been in Delhi for at least the past two to three days to evade arrest,” Kumar said, adding that further efforts helped the crime branch team locate the suspects in Rohini, under the jurisdiction of the Begampur police station.

Ranjan Pathak committed at least eight heinous crimes of which he committed five murders in Sitamarhi district of Bihar whilst Bimlesh, Aman and Manish committed four, three and two murder cases respectively, deputy commissioner of police (crime) Sanjeev Yadav said, adding, “Together, the four committed four contract killings and one case of threatening for extortion in Bihar in less than three months — between July 18 and October 13.”

On July 18, the four shot six bullets in the body of a man they killed. They shot a person five times on August 21 and in the third contract killing, in which the date has not been made public by the police, the shooters fired three bullets at the target.

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The fourth contract killing occurred on September 29, in which the victim was hit by six bullets, as added by the DCP.

An officer that was involved in the gunfight stated that Ranjan had set himself up as an aspiring gangster of Bihar by committing contract killings and extorting. The officer claimed that Ranjan had threatened someone in Bihar via a phone call and demanded extortion money less than 24 hours before he was killed in the shootout.

“Ranjan also bragged about his criminal achievements in the local crime world in Bihar’s Sitamarhi. He had also uploaded a video on his social media account, showing a pistol in his hand,” the officer added.

While the police department did not make any official comments about the political connections of the four gang members in Bihar, at least three crime branch officers of the department, who asked not to be named, claimed the four were planning the contract killings along with other crimes like extortion and threatening individuals, ahead of the elections in Bihar.

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