New Delhi: Delhi Police swooped down on shooters of the Gogi and Tillu Tajpuria gangs, arresting nine of them and seizing arms and ammunition in a preventive crackdown which averted a gangwar in the capital.According to special CP (law and order) Ravindra Singh Yadav, the intelligence-led raids, comprising 430 personnel from three districts, targeted 28 gang hideouts throughout Tuesday night across Delhi, Sonipat and Bahadurgarh.Codenamed Op Shashtra, the raids kicked off after 24 teams in Rohini, Outer North and North West districts collected intelligence that made the larger operation possible. The police were on their toes since the Tajpuria gang did two back-to-back killings of Gogi gang members. Police mounted surveillance and used a human intelligence network to keep tabs on the gangs. They got inputs that the shooters were about to carry out revenge attacks.Among the significant arrests was that of gangster Amit Mann, a listed “bad character” of Prem Nagar who managed a gang of nearly a dozen members and sourced weapons from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.Mann, who has eight criminal cases including murder and robbery, was found in possession of four sophisticated pistols made in Italy and Korea.The other arrests included Ravi, alias Chanu Baba, of the Tillu gang in the Outer North district, and Baba, alias Inderjeet, a 24-year-old wanted in a attempted murder case in northwest Delhi.The scale of recoveries after the raids highlights the heavily armed nature of the syndicates. Police seized six sophisticated pistols made outside India, four country-made pistols, 52 live cartridges of various calibers, and three button-actuated knives.The operation led to the recovery of 12 mobile phones and a fleet of vehicles used in criminal activities, including a Maruti Brezza, nine motorcycles and four scooters.The arrest of Pritam Charan, alias Deepak of the Mahoba gang, led to the recovery of nine stolen motorcycles and three scooters alone.In addition to the nine primary arrests, police detained six others who are being questioned.In Rohini district, 280 police personnel raided 16 locations and apprehended seven people.This operation follows a similar large-scale raid conducted on March 12, signalling a strategy by the police to monitor criminals released on bail and disrupt organised street crime.Joint commissioner Vijay Singh described the operation as a warning to organised syndicates, noting that the coordinated action has significantly dented the operational capabilities of gangs involved in extortion and robbery.on each other after which the action was taken
