Cellphone leads to arrest of criminal

He stepped into the underworld after he came in contact with the gang of Vinod Lamboo and Vinod Natoo of Jaunpur. He invited police attention in 1992 after he allegedly killed Block Pramukh Ram Chander Singh, his security guard and another person in a shootout in Jaunpur in broaddaylight. The same year, he allegedly killed another Block Pramukh, Kailash Dubey, in a public meeting in police presence.

The local police’s efforts compelled him to leave Jaunpur. He came in contact with another gangster Anil Singh, also a former deputy mayor of Varanasi. The two committed a number of murders including that of notorious Varanasi criminals Chhote Singh and Bade Singh in 1995. Anil Singh is currently serving time.

His notoriety brought him in contact with dreaded gangster and sitting BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari who allegedly helped him become one of the top UP gangsters. Mukhtar introduced him to Khurshid, a notorious Mumbai-based smuggler of drugs and gold. Bajrangi soon became a partner in the smuggling chain of Mukhtar Ansari, Khursheed, Sharad Shetty (a Mumbai-based builder and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s associate) and Aniruddha Singh Jadoja, a dreaded arms peddler and the owner of a shipping company in Bhuj, Gujrat.

Bajrangi was the first gangster to introduce AK-47 in eastern UP,said Kumar.Bajrangi had recently bought a flat in the Borivali area of Mumbai and was living there with his family. But after the Special Task Force tightened its noose around him and picked up his brother-in-law and Khurshid, he shifted his base to the National Capital Region (NCR).

The police got Bajrangi’s cellular phone number from Khurshid which helped them determine his location in Karnal. The police party today traced Bajrangi and his associate Yatender in Karnal and chased them to the Samaipur Badli area in Delhi where he was critically injured in the shootout with the police party and admitted to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital.