Six sharpshooters of Chhota Shakeel caught in Delhi: police

September 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Three aides of underworld don Chhota Rajan were arrested from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, police said Saturday. Prateek Singh, Rahul Singh and Chandradhari, all in their early 20s, used to operate as shooters for the underworld don, the police alleged.

August 22nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two aides of underworld don Chhota Rajan were arrested after a brief gunfight with security personnel in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district, police said Saturday. Mohammed Masil and Abdul Gufran, both in their early 20s, were arrested Friday evening following a joint operation of the police and Special Operation Group (SOG).

August 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A criminal wanted in over 40 cases in three states was arrested Saturday along with one of his accomplices, police said. According to police, Kamaljeet Chopra alias Bitto, 36, and his accomplish Shakeel, 30, were arrested in south Delhi after a shoot out.

July 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Mumbai Police Friday claimed to have foiled a plot to kill the lawyers of Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur, one of the prime accused in last year's blast in Malegaon, and have arrested four men. The police have nabbed four henchmen of the absconding mafia don Chhota Shakeel, believed to be in Pakistan, who were assigned the task of killing advocates Ganesh Sovani and Navin Chhotumal, a senior police official said.

July 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Government on Tuesday rejected Bharatiya Janata Party MP Varun Gandhi's plea for more security following threat from an underworld outfit. According to sources, Varun Gandhi currently has a special Y category protection, which includes three Police Services Officers (PSOs) round the clock, one escort and pilot vehicle, and after several evaluations the arrangement was found sufficient.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi Sunday alleged that members of underworld mobster Chhota Shakeel's gang were plotting to kill him while his mother and party leader Maneka Gandhi complained to the prime minister that the home ministry was treating the threats to his life casually. A day after six sharpshooters of Chhota Shakeel - one of India's most wanted gangsters - were arrested from various parts of the capital, Varun Gandhi urged Home Minister P.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi Sunday claimed that underworld criminals arrested in Delhi a day earlier were plotting to kill him and urged the home minister to take urgent action. "The plot against my life by dangerous underworld criminals apprehended yesterday by Delhi Police exemplifies exactly the kind of terror and violence against which I stand and have been warning against.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Saturday said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Maneka Gandhi's reaction to the alleged security threat to her son Varun was "most ironical" and wondered how she had failed to react as strongly to her son's anti-Muslim speeches. "I am finding (it) most ironical that Mrs.

June 20th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - A man suspected of involvement in the Frontier Mail blast in 1997 committed suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell in Ghaziabad, police said Saturday. The death occurred Friday in the Dasna jail in Ghaziabad where Shakeel was lodged after he was convicted by a Delhi court to 10 years' imprisonment in another terror related case in 1998.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Taking a cue from TV footage on India's most-wanted gangsters Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan, a 32-year-old man tried to extort Rs.5 million from a city businessman but has landed behind bars, Delhi police said here Tuesday. Aslam Firoz, a resident of Champaran in Bihar, was arrested Monday from Badarpur in south Delhi on the complaint of a factory owner from whom he had demanded Rs.5 million as 'protection money' in the name of Chhota Rajan.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A mob Thursday set a Blueline bus on fire after it knocked down and killed a 21-year-old man and injured his friend in west Delhi's Janakpuri area, police said. Kuldeep, a photographer, was riding a motorbike with his friend Shakeel, 22, when they were hit by the speeding bus, plying on route number 816 between Uttam Nagar and Malkaganj around 10 a.m.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Thursday issued a show cause notice to Union Minister of State for Home Shakeel Ahmad for violating the model code of conduct. 'The Election Commission has issued show cause notice to Shakeel Ahmed for violation of model code of conduct,' a statement issued here said.

January 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The four robbers injured in the daylight shootout with the Delhi Police Monday at a busy south Delhi market are members of an interstate gang, the police said Tuesday. 'The gang was involved in several cases of robbery in Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh,' Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) H.G.S.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a scene straight out of an action thriller, Delhi Police sharpshooters chased a gang of 'desperate criminals' in broad daylight on a busy road in the capital Monday before knocking down four of them in a shootout. Police later said four criminals were seriously injured while five managed to flee.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a scene straight out of an action thriller, Delhi Police sharpshooters chased a gang of 'desperate criminals' in broad daylight on a busy road in the capital Monday before knocking down four of them in a shootout. The police later said four criminals were seriously injured while two of the five who had managed to flee were nabbed.