Lucknow: With Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath promising a crackdown in opposition to the mafia, the Uttar Pradesh Police final month launched an inventory containing the names of heads of 66 prison gangs, and high officers say a number of groups are on the bottom on the lookout for the absconding accused and likewise keeping track of these on bail. Three of the listed mafia are actually lifeless — Anil Dujana and Aditya Rana alias Ravi killed in police encounters, and Atiq Ahmed killed in Prayagraj by assailants posing as journalists. Atiq (*66*) brother Ashraf, whose identify didn’t determine within the checklist, was additionally gunned down with him.
Among the remainder 63 named within the checklist, 5 are absconding, 20 are out on bail, and 38 are lodged in numerous jails.
Senior police officers stated the federal government is monitoring them. “Our teams are on the lookout for the criminals and if they fire at the police instead of surrendering, they will definitely face retaliation,” a police officer stated.
Special Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar advised PTI, “The police are keeping an eye on everyone. Nobody will be allowed to play with law and order in the state.”
He stated a number of groups have been fashioned to arrest the mafia who’re absconding. “The police are keeping a close watch on the activities of the mafia, who are on bail. The police carry out their verification from time to time.”
The mafia checklist was launched weeks after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath vowed decisive motion in opposition to such parts within the state. “Mafiaaon ko mitti me mila denge (will reduce the mafia to dust,” he had thundered within the state meeting throughout a heated debate with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav over the difficulty of Atiq Ahmed, who was then lodged in a jail in Gujarat.
On May 4, gangster Anil Dujana, whose identify generated concern within the districts of the National Capital Region for twenty years, was killed in Merrut in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force.
“Anil Dujana, a wanted criminal, was surrounded by our team in a village in Meerut on Thursday afternoon. Dujana fired at our team to escape and was killed in retaliatory firing,” Additional Director General of UP STF Amitabh Yash had stated.
Anil, who carried his village identify as his final identify, had over 60 circumstances lodged in opposition to him, together with of homicide and extortion.
He was killed simply two weeks after mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf had been shot lifeless from point-blank vary by threes folks as the 2 brothers alighted a police van and walked in the direction of a hospital, handcuffed and being escorted by policemen, in Prayagraj round 10 pm.
On April 12, the Special Task Force gunned down Aditya Rana alias Ravi, who had fled from police custody.
Under Additional Director General of Police (ADG) STF Amitabh Yash stated police, as a part of a particular marketing campaign, are on the lookout for criminals declared absconding.
During their marketing campaign for the city native physique polls, Chief Minister Adityanath and state ministers are attacking Opposition events alleging they sheltered such criminals.
“BJP ki ek hi yukti, pradesh ko dilai mafia se mukti (The BJP has only one solution which: rid the sate of mafia). The mafia are begging for mercy to lead regular lives and earn livelihoods by honest means due to the government’ zero tolerance against crime,” Adityanath had advised a ballot rally in in Rae Bareli.
Earlier criminals in Uttar Pradesh would stroll round their heads held excessive, however now they carry placards round their necks begging for his or her lives, he stated.
He additionally took a dig on the earlier regimes, saying folks related to a specific occasion would brandish country-made pistols, however they aren’t seen nowadays, and youths now are engaged on smartphones and tablets.
One of the listed mafias is Baddan Singh Baddo, who has been absconding for the previous 4 years.
He had managed to flee when the police occasion escorting him again to Farrukhabad jail after a court docket look in Ghaziabad halted at an eatery in Meerut. All the police personnel allegedly bought drunk and he took benefit of the scenario. The police are but to arrest Baddo who has circumstances of homicide, loot and ransom registered in opposition to him.
Last week, absconding mafia Manoj Aase was arrested in Gautam Budh Nagar after an encounter. He was additionally injured within the alternate of fireside.
Haji Iqbal alias Bala, a former BSP MLC and mining mafia of Saharanpur, can be absconding and the police have declared a money reward of Rs 1 lakh on him arrest. His brother and sons are in jail.
Others within the checklist who’re out of the police internet but are: Jugnu Walia alias Harvinder Singh (of Lucknow), who’s related to the Mukhtar Ansari’s gang, Meerut-based Vinay Tyagi and Javed alias Pappu of Prayagraj.
Ajay Pratap Singh alias Ajay Sipahi of Ambedkarnagar, Sushil Mooch of Muzaffarnagar, Anoop Singh and Pradeep Singh of Pratapgarh, Sudhir Singh, Rakesh Yadav and Vinod Upadhyay of Gorakhpur, Saud Akhtar of Kanpur, Bachu Yadav of Lucknow, Rajesh Yadav, Kamrul Hasan and Jabir Hussain of Prayagraj are out on bail.
Former MLCs Brijesh Singh (of Varanasi) and Sanjeev Dwivedi alias Ramu Dwivedi (of Deoria) are additionally on bail.
Those who’re lodged in jail are former MLA Mukhtar Ansari, former MP Rizwan Zaheer, Tribhuvan Singh, Amit Kasana, Sundar Bhati and Subhash Thakur.
Officials stated the mafia used to function their community from inside jails, however their confidence has been shaken after the state authorities crackdown on the nexus between mafia and jail officers.
Action has been initiated in opposition to jail officers, workers and criminals in a number of circumstances together with the unlawful assembly between Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas and his spouse in Chitrakoot jail, the place Abbas was lodged, and Ashraf’s assembly with folks in Bareilly jail.
