A 36-year-old proclaimed offender from Bihar was arrested on Friday for allegedly killing a public prosecutor in 2015, the police said on Saturday. He was allegedly involved in several cases of robbery and extortion and was planning to move to Delhi for a safe hideout, they added.
Wazir Ahmed alias Daddu Miya, from Bihar’s Gopalganj, was arrested from Jamia Nagar following a tip-off, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-East) Chinmoy Biswal.
Daddu Miya, a welder, had entered the crime world in 2002 to establish supremacy in his village. He was first arrested in the same year in a shoot-out case following which he went to Saudi Arabia to work as a welder.
On his return in 2007, he joined gangster Munna Mishra and committed highway robberies and extortion in Gopalganj, the police said. “Daddu Miya was arrested in 2007 when he met another gangster Mintoo Singh in jail. Singh and Mishra were rivals but he joined Singh and worked for him thereafter,” said Mr. Biswal.
Eight years later, Daddu Miya met Singh in Motihari jail again and the two allegedly conspired to kill public prosecutor and senior advocate Trupurari Sharan. Singh had a personal enmity with the lawyer, the police said.
“On August 30, 2015, Daddu Miya and his associate entered the lawyer’s chamber and shot him dead in broad daylight. He was absconding ever since,” the DCP said, adding that the accused moved to Mumbai. and worked as a welder there.
However, a former associate met him in Mumbai and informed him that the police are raiding several places in the city and suggested he move to another place, the police added.
“Dadu Miya then went back to Gopalganj. He dropped his wife and three children there and came to Delhi last week to revive old contacts and look for work,” the DCP said.
