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Slain gangster had plans to kidnap businessman's son

Staff Reporter

Ashok was son of a retd. Armyman and a post-graduate from Delhi University

NEW DELHI: Ashok alias Bunty, who was killed in an encounter with the Special Cell of the Delhi police in North-East Delhi on Saturday night, and his accomplice had planned to kidnap the son of a businessman in North-East Delhi.

According to the police, two accomplices of Ashok, Pankaj Chaudhary and Devyatosh Das, had been arrested on March 13 at Nizamuddin railway station in South Delhi. A slip of paper was recovered from Devyatosh's possession in which there were details about the movements of a businessman and his family members.

During interrogation, Devyatosh -- who was also earlier involved in Personal Point triple murder case -- allegedly told the police that he, along with Ashok and others, had planned to kidnap the businessman's son.

Acting on the information, the police got a tip-off about Ashok coming to meet his accomplice near a sports complex at Dilshad Garden in North-East Delhi on Saturday night. The police laid a trap there and when the suspect appeared on the scene in a Maruti car, he was asked to surrender. However, he opened fire on the police who returned the fire and was killed.

The police recovered five spent cartridges and one live cartridge from his .32-bore revolver. Five cartridges were recovered from the Maruti car in which he had reached there. The police also seized the car.

Earlier, the Delhi and the Gurgaon police had killed Hemant alias Sonu, Jaswant and Jaiprakash in an encounter on Delhi-Gurgaon border on March 7. Ashok, son of a retired Army personnel and a post-graduate from Delhi University, was an active member of Hemant's gang.

Investigations revealed that Hemant, Ashok and his accomplices had stolen the car, seized at the spot, from Pali in Rajasthan on January 23 and had used the same to rob cash and jewellery worth Rs. 20 lakhs from a jeweller in Shastri Nagar, Rajasthan, two days later.

Last year in November, Ashok and his accomplices had robbed a person of his Maruti Wagon-R car and Rs. 4.75 lakhs in cash on Meerut Road.

In August last year, Ashok and his accomplices attempted to kidnap one Sachin near Bhagwan Talkies in Agra.

At Sultanpuri in North-West Delhi, they had robbed a businessman of his Ford Ikon car and jewellery at gunpoint in 2002. In the same year, Ashok and his associates had barged into the house of a woman and robbed her of cash and jewellery at Mukherjee Nagar in North-West Delhi.

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