Member of notorious Saddam Gauri-Salman Tyagi gang arrested in Delhi
New Delhi (IANS). Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested a member of the infamous Saddam Gauri-Salman Tyagi gang. The arrested accused has been identified as Puneet Sharma alias Anil.
Puneet Sharma is a ‘proclaimed criminal’. Puneet Sharma is involved in nine cases including murder and Arms Act.
Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav said that specific information was received that Puneet Sharma, a resident of Subhash Nagar, an accomplice of Saddam Gauri-Salman Tyagi gang, who is a proclaimed offender in a Rajouri Garden dacoity case, is a close associate of gangsters Saddam Gauri and Deepu. Tis Hazari will come to the court to meet Bunda and help him on the date of his court hearing.
Ravindra Singh Yadav said, “Acting on a tip-off, a trap was laid near Tis Hazari Court Complex and Puneet was successfully nabbed from Metro station, Kashmere Gate.”
During interrogation, Puneet disclosed that he had come to Tis Hazari Court to meet Saddam Gauri and Deepak Bunda and discuss related activities.
The Special CP said, “In the year 2005, he along with Saddam, Deepak and others had killed a transgender in Rajouri Garden. An FIR was also registered in this regard. In 2011, he was also arrested along with gangster Salman Tyagi in a rape case at Hari Nagar police station.
The Special CP told that Tyagi and Gauri are running the gang from inside Tihar Jail through their associates.
The Special CP said that in the year 2019, Gauri, Tyagi, Roshan Khalla, Deepak Bunda were booked under MCOCA at Hari Nagar Police Station. In the year 2022, this gang was involved in the conspiracy to murder Ajay Chaudhary, former chairman of Keshopur Mandi.
