Lucknow: A feared criminal was injured in a meeting with the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh (STF) on Saturday at Gonda.
He was declared dead by a doctor when he reached the hospital.
Criminal has been identified as Vijay Singh aka Bijji aka Bijendra, a resident of Khalagpur Police Station, Kotwali Akbarpur.
He has a gift of Rs 50,000 to him.
Stf officials said Vijay had more than 18 cases against his name with five murders, others entered booty, robbery, and dakoity.
“Vijay also works as a contract killer with different gangs throughout India and also runs a squeeze racket.
The criminal record is looking for,” Stf added.
Additional Director General of Police (law and orders) Prashant Kumar said Vijay planned another murder when STF was told about his movements.
“The team put the trap, and the defendant was cornered on Jalan Paraspur-Nawabganj under the Paraspur police station.
He was asked to give up but fired a shot in the STF team and suffered a shot in return to shoot by the police team.
He was then taken to a government hospital and was declared dead , “Kumar said.