Hyderabad: Like other residents, the criminals were also home-bound during the lockdown which made it easier for the police to arrest them.
In a massive campaign launched by the cops, a large number of wanted criminals, gangsters, bootleggers and gamblers have been put behind the bars.
The police officials were able to concentrate and uproot criminals due to the drop in the crime rate, hence, efficiently using their time and resources.
Some of these offenders were involved in heinous crimes and were evading police for a long time.
With the implementation of lock-down, not only civilians but even the convicts were forced to stay at home. Amid tight security and a large number of checkpoints in the district, they were unable to change their hideouts frequently as they usually did to escape the police.
Let us have a look at all those offenders who were arrested during the lockdown:
BIHAR
13.04. 2020 : Ravindra Mishra aka Kuber Mishra was one of the most wanted criminals of Bihar. He faced serious shortage of money and food amid lockdown. While he was in search for some source of income, the police got tip off and arrested him. Police was searching him since last 4 years and there was a bounty of Rs 50,000 on his head.
DELHI
14.04.2020: The Delhi police arrested Bijender Gadgu, a gangster wanted in connection with several crimes. Police laid a trap for him by taking advantage of coronavirus lockdown as the personnel waited for the gangster at a picket without raising undue alarm. There was a bounty of Rs 1 lakh on his head. He was an active member of Kaala Gang that operates in the Delhi-NCR. The gang was named after Karambir Kaala, who was arrested in 2018.
HARYANA
02-06-2020: A criminal wanted by Uttar Pradesh Police was arrested in Haryana's Nuh district. He has been identified as Zakir Hussain, a resident of Gangwani in Nuh. He was nabbed by a crime investigation team of Haryana police following a tip-off. Hussain was involved in loot and dacoity incidents in Agra in 2002. The Agra Police had announced a reward of Rs 15,000 leading to his arrest.
PUNJAB
02.06.2020: Punjab's Organized Crime Control Unit (OCCU) nabbed pro-Khalistan terrorist and one of the most wanted gangsters, Tejinder Singh alias Teja, from Mohali while he was, allegedly, trying to mobilise funds for the Khalistan movement. Teja had recently executed a dacoity in Ludhiana, where he looted 2 kg gold.
07.05.2020 : In another major breakthrough, the Punjab Police arrested seven gangsters, including ‘most wanted’ Baljinder Singh aka Billa, while seizing a large cache of sophisticated arms and ammunition allegedly smuggled from Pakistan. Another notorious gangster, Sukhjinder, and five other members of the Billa gang, were also arrested. Billa was wanted for smuggling of weapons and drugs.
MADHYA PRADESH
29.05.2020: Crime Branch arrested the listed gangster Mausam Maratha alias Lakhan from Chhatripura police station area of Indore. At the same time, police registered a case against the accused under the Arms Act in Indore.
RAJASTHAN
07.04.2020: Notorious dacoit Pappu Gurjar who faced criminal cases in three states Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh was arrested after an encounter with police in Dholpur district. He carried three cash rewards worth Rs.50,000. Pappu is one of the top 10 wanted criminals in Rajasthan and has several cases lodged against him in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh as well.
UTTAR PRADESH
20.04.2020 : The crime branch recently, nabbed Khalid Zafar and Neelu, henchmen of former MP Atiq Ahmad who were involved in abducting a builder Zaid Khalid from Prayagraj. Zaid was taken to Deoria Jail where he was tortured by Atiq and others over the transfer of a property.
WEST BENGAL
29.05.2020 : A frontline Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operative, Abdul Karim alias Boro Karim, believed to be the third top person in the Bangladesh-based terror module, was arrested by the Kolkata Police special task force in Murshidabad’s Suti. Karim, from Chandnidaha village in Shamsergunj, was wanted in several terror cases lodged in Bangladesh and India since 2017 and is part of the neo JMB faction that is ideologically closer to IS. Security agencies believe he may have had a role in the 2013 Bodh Gaya blast.
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