Anil Dujana had threatened a witness in a homicide case: UP Police
LUCKNOW: Anil Dujana, the most-wanted gangster who was killed in an encounter with the UP STF on Thursday, had threatened a key witness in a homicide case he had been named in quickly after his launch on bail, about two weeks in the past.
Within the FIR, filed by Sangeeta Tongar in Gautam Buddha Nagar, she acknowledged, “He (Dujana) had killed my husband in 2012. On April 19, after I, together with a gunner and my brother-in-law, was coming back from Surajpur court docket in Gautam Buddha Nagar, our automobile was overtaken and Dujana appeared. I assumed he was in Ayodhya jail however he was out on bail. He threatened me to cease testifying in opposition to him in court docket. For 11 years, over 230 listening to dates, he had managed to tug the case. My life is at risk. “
Within the FIR filed by the widow, Dujana was booked underneath IPC sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 504 (intentional insult and provocation) and 506 (risk to trigger demise or grievous damage).
Following the FIR, UP STF swung into motion to trace down the gangster.
Dujana was most energetic within the western UP districts of Noida, Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar, Bulandshahr, Meerut, amongst others.
Earlier than 2000, he was concerned within the unlawful commerce of iron and metal TMT bars underneath the patronage of the Sundar Bhati gang.
Later, he fell out with Bhati and aligned himself with one other Gautam Buddha Nagar- primarily based gangster Naresh Bhati.
Following years of gang conflict between the 2 Bhatis in addition to police encounters, a number of high members of each the teams, together with Naresh Bhati, who had helped Dujana consolidate his place in west UP, had been killed.
In a daring face-off in 2011, Dujana and his associates had attacked Sundar Bhati, presently lodged in Sonbhadra jail, and armed with computerized weapons, had barged into the marriage of Sundar’s nephew in Ghaziabad.
The shootout that ensued left three gang members of Sundar useless however their prime goal managed to flee.
ASP Brijesh Singh mentioned, “Dujana had shaped his personal workforce later and was related to a lot of the notable gangsters of west UP. He was near Mukim Kala gang of Shamli, Balram Thakur gang of Bulandshahr, and round 50 extra gangsters unfold throughout Meerut, Etawah, Noida, Muzaffarnagar, Ghaziabad, Hathras.