Notorious Gogi gang member arrested after shootout with Delhi Police

A member of the notorious Gogi gang has been arrested after a brief shootout with the Special Staff of the Outer Northern Districts Police during which he sustained a bullet wound in the leg, police said on Saturday.

Police have identified the alleged criminal as 23-year-old Pawan alias Poona. Police said the incident took place near the Bawana industrial area in outer Delhi in the early hours of Friday. One live-action pistol and a stolen TVS Apache motorcycle were recovered from the scene of the gunfight, police said.

Police said at least three bullets were exchanged on both sides. "Two bullets were fired at Pawan and one by the police that hit his right leg, no one from the ambush party was injured," Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) (Outer-North) Ravi Kumar Singh said. DCP Singh said Pawan, a resident of Sonepat in Haryana, is one of the members of the Gogi gang, whose leader was Delhi's most notorious gangster Jitender Maan alias Gogi.

Maan was shot dead by his rival gang led by now-dead gangster Sunil alias Tillu Tajpuria in a courtroom in the Rohini Judicial Complex on September 24, 2021. Pawan is involved in extortion and robberies committed by the gang in the outer north district, Singh said. .

“Our special team received information that Pawan would be passing on a motorbike on the road leading to Bawana from Lal Flats late on Friday night. Accordingly, a trap was laid and the suspect was spotted on an Apache motorcycle around midnight,” Singh said. When the suspect was asked to stop, he tried to speed up but his bike skidded and he fell off it, the DCP said.

A police team rushed to nab him and that's when Pawan panicked, pulled out a pistol and fired two shots at them, Singh added. “Fortunately, his bullets didn't hit anyone on the team. In self-defence, the team fired one bullet that hit Pawan's right leg. He was then overpowered and his firearm was seized,” the DCP said, adding that the motorcycle was found stolen from the Alipur area during a robbery earlier this year.

Pawan was accused of trying to kill police personnel and obstructing them in the discharge of their duties. A case under Sections 186, 353 and 307 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 25 and 27 of the Arms Act has been registered at the Bawana police station against Pawan, the DCP said.