Two who fired outside actor's house shot dead
New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- The Delhi Police Special Cell, along with the Haryana and Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force, shot dead two gangsters, who allegedly opened fire outside Bollywood actor Disha Patani's house in Bareilly last week, in Ghaziabad's Tronica City on Wednesday evening.
A Delhi Police officer was injured while the gangsters, linked to the Rohit Godara and Goldy Brar gangs, were critically wounded, police said. The two gangsters, identified as Ravinder, of Rohtak, and Arun, of Sonepat, died during treatment, officers said.
The police team and the gangsters exchanged over a dozen rounds, in which four police officers were also injured.
Pramod Singh Kushwah, additional commissioner of police (Special Cell), said, "In a joint operation of Delhi Police Special Cell, UP STF and Haryana STF, two active criminals of Rohit Godara-Goldy Brar gang were injured in a shoot-out near Tronica City, Ghaziabad.Both accused were directly involved in a firing incident outside Bollywood actress Disha Patani's residence in Bareilly."
An official with the Special Cell said, "Ravinder was wanted in a court firing case in Fatehabad last year in December. He was one of the four assailants who stopped a police van ferrying an undertrial from Fatehabad court to prison."
Investigators said the assailants were also involved in a court gang war incident in Bhiwani on September 5. Four to five assailants had fired at a man named Luvjeet while he was sitting outside a court.
Police said Godara's gang targeted Luvjeet because he had befriended a rival gangster Haria.
On September 12, police said two assailants fired multiple rounds outside Patani's residence. After the incident, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath took cognizance of the matter, and directed the state's STF to take stringent action.
Investigators in Delhi and UP said they identified Ravinder from CCTV footage recorded near the residence.
"It was around 4-5am that the teams found that the accused had finally reached Ghaziabad and were trying to escape. Teams were sent and technical surveillance was mounted on multiple suspects. By afternoon, their location was confirmed and a trap was laid near Tronica City. At 7.20pm, a police team stopped their bike and asked them to surrender,but they fired," another officer from the Delhi Police said.
The officer said that the gangsters allegedly fired four to five rounds.
The police retaliated and gunned down both gangsters. Police said they recovered two automatic pistols, a Zigana pistol and a Glock Gen 5 pistol, besides a stolen bike.
Officials from UP STF said the gang was targeting Patani, to extort her and her family due to their "high-profile status", and that the gang had been monitoring the property for weeks....
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