On Monday, Delhi Police detained two of the four shooters who allegedly fired 16 rounds at a gas pump in the national capital’s Gokulpuri district on November 15, injuring an employee. According to the police, the motorcycle used in the incident was traced back to a man named Lalit from Loni, who disclosed that he had given his vehicle to his friend Rukmesh from Meerut. “Rukmesh grabbed the bike around 7 p.m. and returned it at 11 p.m. with the number plate broken. Sanjay Kumar Sain, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), stated he was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Vinod Kasana.
According to police, Kasana’s home in Noida’s Sector 49 was raided, and he and his wife were grilled regarding Rukmesh’s location. “It was revealed that Vinod was aware of Rukmesh’s involvement in the shooting and facilitated his escape from Noida to Mehandipur Balaji,” stated Sanjay Bhatia, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime).
During the intervening night of November 17 and 18, police obtained information that one of the suspects, Ankit, was at Ganga Nagar, Meerut. “Ankit was captured in Meerut, while Rukmesh was apprehended in the same region. Ankit is a close accomplice of mobster Rahul Baba and was asked to carry out the shooting. Deepak Furtila, Baba’s aide, hired Rukmesh to
Four males on two motorcycles opened fire on a petrol pump in the Gokulpuri neighborhood about 10.30 p.m. last Friday, according to police. The petrol pump supervisor was injured by broken glass after the accused shot 16 rounds of gunfire into his cabin, they said.
Harish Chaudhary, the pump owner, has been labeled a “bad character” in police records at Gokulpuri Police Station. Deepak Furtila and 16 others were arrested when the authorities broke a guns racket.