Chandigarh, Jan 14 (PTI) The Special Task Force (STF)Gurugram today apprehended four shooters of the Manjeet Mahalgang in Haryana's Jhajjar and seized arms and ammunitions fromthem.
The STF, constituted recently by the state government tocurb organised crime, got a tip-off that four shooters of thegang were going to murder a member of the Jyoti Nandu gang.
"Acting on the tip-off, the STF team tried to round upthe shooters. But they fired on the police party and escaped,"a police official said.
Police eventually apprehended all the shooters fromSurkhpur road near Jhajjar.
A case has been registered by the STF against them underseveral provisions of the IPC and the Arms act.
"The accused have been arrested and handed over to thelocal police Jhajjar for further investigation," he said.
Four loaded pistols, 20 live cartridges and onemotorcycle was recovered from the gang members, police said.
The accused will be produced before a court tomorrow.
During the preliminary interrogation, they have confessedtheir involvement in several cases, police said.
On November 15, 2017, the gang allegedly looted a carfrom Kanjhawala, Delhi. On January 11 this year, theyattempted to murder Deepak, a resident of Najafgarh in Delhi.
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