India, March 12 -- Gangster Aman Sahu was killed in an encounter with the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of Jharkhand Police when members of his gang tried to free him from police custody in Jharkhand's Palamu district on Tuesday, officials said.

According to police, the encounter took place around 9.30 am when Sahu was being brought from Raipur Jail in Chhattisgarh to Ranchi by an ATS team on transit remand for interrogation in two cases - murder of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) deputy general manager Kumar Gaurav (42) on March 8 and murder attempt on coal trader Vipin Mishra on March 7.

"On 11.03.2025 at around 09.30 am, information was received from superintendent of police, Palamu, that notorious gangster Aman Sahu was being...