Delhi’s ‘most wanted’ gangster Neeraj Bawana who is involved in more than 40 cases of murder, attempt to murder and extortion has been arrested by the Special Cell in the wee hours of Monday.
According to police, 27-year-old Bawana, whose real name is Neeraj Sehrawat, was arrested from main Rohtak Road around 3-45 a.m. when he was on his way to meet his family along with an associate Mohd. Rashid Khan.
Police said that he used Kolkata and Mumbai as his hideouts and used to come to Delhi at regular intervals to extort money from people and to meet his family. He was running a full-fledged gang of extortionists and had men as young as 20-year-olds as its member.
“It was difficult to track him because neither he nor those around him used mobile phones. He used Internet-based communication system and camouflaged his location,” a police officer said.
Bawana has been arrested several times earlier as well, including in 2012 when he had demanded Rs. 50 lakh from Satinder, the then MLA from Narela constituency. He had jumped parole in 2013.
“We managed to arrest the most wanted gangster after being on his trail for 18 months,” said Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) SN Shrivastava.
Bawana had become a nightmare for Delhi police as he was giving them a slip and was roaming all over North, Central and Western India and had even got married.
Police clarified that Bawana had no role in the recent killing of former INLD MLA Bharat Singh.
“Bawana was collecting a steady stream of extortion money from industrial units operating in Narela and Bawana. He had ventured into land grabbing and real estate, acquiring many benaami properties,” said Mr. Shrivastava.
