4 suspected shooters of Deepak Nandal gang killed, 3 policemen injured in Gurugram encounter. The firing on the businessman, the extortion connection and the recovered automatic weapons raised many big questions.
Gurugram: Sushant Lok Phase-2, the posh area of Cyber City Gurugram, was shaken by the sound of bullets on Thursday. Four suspected shooters have been killed, while one has been seriously injured in a bloody encounter between the Crime Branch of Gurugram Police and the operatives of notorious gangster Deepak Nandal, who is based abroad. In this hair-raising encounter, three brave soldiers of the Crime Branch, while fighting the criminals, also got seriously injured by bullets. After this sensational incident, heavy police force has been deployed in the entire area.
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‘International’ message of extortion: A famous businessman of the city was on the radar
The script of this bloody drama was actually being written across seven seas. For the last several days, a big and influential businessman of Sushant Lok area was receiving threatening messages of extortion from the gangster Deepak Nandal sitting abroad. When the businessman refused, the gangster sent his most dreaded shooters by giving them betel nuts to create fear in the city. On Wednesday night, these five shooters, armed with state-of-the-art automatic weapons, had gone out in a suspicious Scorpio SUV to target the businessman’s house, but they had no idea that the Crime Branch teams of Gurugram Police were already on high alert.
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Scorpio chase and surrender warning: When police pounced at midnight
Police Control Room (PCR) had received information that a suspicious black colored Scorpio SUV was hovering in Sushant Lok area. As soon as the information was received, several teams of the crime branch swung into action and started chasing the vehicle. By the time the police teams reached the spot, the criminals had stopped their Scorpio outside the businessman’s house and started firing rapidly inside. The Crime Branch personnel immediately took charge and through loudspeaker warned the criminals to lay down their arms (surrender), saying that they were surrounded from all sides. But instead of surrendering, the shooters, who saw their own death in front, targeted the police team.
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The sound of bullets and bleeding soldiers: government guns fired in self-defense
The shooters started direct firing on the police team with sophisticated automatic weapons and started looking for a way to escape. In this audacious firing by the criminals, three Crime Branch soldiers were seriously injured by bullets and fell on the ground bleeding. Seeing their colleagues injured and in self-defense, the crime branch ordered retaliatory action. After this, more than a hundred rounds of bullets were fired from both sides. In the accurate retaliatory firing of the police, all the five shooters in the Scorpio were hit by bullets and they fell dead on the spot.
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Doctors’ decision in the hospital: four dead, one still breathing
As soon as the firing stopped, the police officers immediately took the injured soldiers and the five suspected shooters to a nearby private super-specialty hospital without wasting any time. There the doctors declared four shooters dead after a thorough investigation, while the condition of one injured accused remains very critical and he is fighting for life and death in the ICU under the strict supervision of doctors. On the other hand, the three injured policemen are also undergoing emergency treatment, where senior officials are constantly taking updates on their health.
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Forensic investigation and police commissioner’s big statement: ‘This will be the fate of those who spread fear’
The magnitude of the encounter can be gauged from the fact that immediately after the incident, DCP Crime and DCP East themselves reached the spot with heavy police force. Teams from the Scene of Crime Unit and Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) conducted scientific and technical investigation of the incident site. Police have recovered five sophisticated automatic weapons and dozens of live cartridges from the criminals’ vehicle. Gurugram Police Commissioner said in clear words that the criminal records and identities of the killed and injured criminals are being verified. Giving a stern warning to the criminals, he reiterated that Gurugram Police is fully committed to the safety of the public and stricter and more decisive action will be taken against anyone who tries to disturb law and order in the city or create an atmosphere of fear among the traders.
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Identity and criminal record investigation continues
Gurugram Police has clarified that the identity of the killed and injured accused, their criminal history, detailed information about the weapons recovered and other aspects related to the network of this gang will be revealed after the completion of the investigation and official confirmation. Police said that legal action is underway in the entire matter and strict action will be taken against any organized criminal gang to maintain law and order in the city. This encounter once again indicates that the police have intensified action against organized crime and extortion networks operated from abroad. Now the investigating agencies are keeping an eye on where other members of this gang are active and whether this network is also connected to any big criminal gang.