New Delhi: One of the "most wanted
criminals", allegedly involved in 11 cases of murder and
kidnapping in Bihar and Nepal and evading police for the past
ten years, was arrested here, police said on Thursday.
Sanjay Singh (33), hailing from Bihar's Motihari
district and carrying a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head, was
caught by Delhi Police' Crime Branch from near NBCC bus stand
on MG Road yesterday.
"Our Special Operations Squad received an information
that Singh is living in NCR. We laid a trap yesterday and we
caught him when he reached there about 5.30 pm," Additional
Commissioner Neeraj Thakur said.
A .315 bore illegal firearm, two live rounds and a car
have been recovered from his possession. Eleven cases of
murder, kidnapping for ransom and extortion have been solved
with his arrest, he said.
"Singh had devised a unique method to evade the
police. He used to kidnap people from Bihar and would keep
them in captivity in Nepal. Those kidnapped from Nepal were
kept in captivity in Bihar," he said.
During interrogation, he said that after completion of
education, he along with his elder brother opened a fertiliser
shop but it did not do well. His father was a primary school
teacher.
Singh, who is running an interior decoration unit in
Sushant Lok in Gurgaon, had "vowed" not to get arrested after
his first arrest in 1994, Thakur said.
He was living in Gurgaon from 2000 and he shifted to
Aya Nagar in 2007.
"He used to quietly sneak into Gurgaon after committing
crime in Bihar or Nepal," Thakur added.
In 1993, Singh along with three others allegedly
kidnapped an 18-year-old boy from Motihari. His associates
were arrested, but he escaped and was caught a year later.
Singh remained in jail for a year where he met Tun Tun
Singh, a notorious gangster. After release from jail, Singh
along with Tun Tun stayed in Kathmandu for 18 months and
came back to Motihari in 1998.
"He then started extorting protection money on behalf
of Tun Tun from businessmen of Motihari, Muzaffarpur, Betia
and Ruxsol districts," Thakur said.
After Tun Tun was killed by rival gangs in 2000, Singh
took the reins of the gang. Next year, his associates were
arrested for the murder of a businessman while he managed to
evade arrest.
In other cases too, his associates were arrested.
Bureau Report