Ghaziabad: A gangster whose name is regularly trimmed in police files in the NCR and West Up Head arrested by STF from the Sahibad area, allegedly after a shootout, around midnight on Wednesday.
Afsarun, for whom the police arrested him had announced the RS 50,000 gift, had 31 kidnapping, booty, and extortion cases at various Western Up and Delhi-NCR police stations.
He had given police slips for the past two years.
The police said among the things found to him were Tisas Zigana, an expensive Turkish-made gun.
In 2007, Afsarun and two of his colleagues had kidnapped garment traders from Muzaffarnagar and demanded RS 1 crore ransom from his family.
In a week, his two feet – Rashid and Nadeem – were shot down by the police while Afsarun was arrested.
He then got a guarantee.
In 2019, Afsarun looted the truck of goods in Masturi.
That’s when the RS 50,000 gift was announced to him.
He was ordered under Section 392 (robbery) and 395 (dacoity) from the IPC and the relevant provisions of the Arms Act.
Raj Kumar Mishra, DSP STF in Noida, said they received a tip-off that Afsarun would come to Sahibabad to meet some of his colleagues on Wednesday night.
The STF team was deployed near the DLF checkpoint at Sahibabad.
“A little after midnight, a man was seen riding a bicycle that did not have a number plate.
When the STF team hinted at him to stop, he turned to the bike and tried to escape.
He was chased and he opened fire on the team.
When the police opened fire on retaliation, one of the bullets hitting His legs and he fell from a bicycle.
He was taken to the nearest hospital.
He is stable now and has been returned in court detention, “he said.
“He is one of the world-famous names.
He has bought a gun (Zigana) for Rs 3 Lakh.
He will save it in his pocket all the time and show it,” Mishra added.
The officer said Afsarun had entered the world of crime at a very young age.
He was first arrested for beating the neighbors in 2004.
Two years later, he went to prison again because he struggled other young men.
He had entered and got out of prison several times since then.