Gangster Lalu Jhalim alias Amit Rajput
Surat: Gangster Lalu Jhalim alias Amit Rajput wanted in a case registered under the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime Act (GujCTOC) was arrested along with his associate Nikunj Chauhan on Monday. Both were remanded to police custody for 15 days by a local court on Tuesday.
Rajput was nabbed from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh by a team of Detection of Crime Branch (DCB). He had been evading arrest since December 2020. Native of Mahendru village in Jaunpur of UP, Rajput had escaped a few days before the offence under GujCTOC was registered against him. “It was a challenging task to nab Rajput whose family is politically well connected,” said police.
SURAT: With 11 members of Amit Rajput alias Lalu Jalim’s gang booked for carrying out organized crime, Surat crime branch registered second offence under Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime Act (GujCTOC) on Tuesday. Of the 11, cops have already arrested three accused.
The gang has 94 offences including murder, extortion, threatening, assault and others registered against it which it executed jointly or individually.
On November 27, Asif Tameta’s 13-member gang was the first to be booked under the Act and 10 members of the gang have been arrested so far.
Of the Jalim gang, police arrested Shivam Rajput, Nilesh Avchite and Jagdish Kantariya while eight others including kingpin Amit alias Lalu Jalim, Dipak Jayswal, Shailendra Sharma, Jagdish Kantariya, Aashish Pande, Nikunj Chauhan, Ravi alias Dhanu Shinde, Nayan Barot and Avnesh Rajput are still on the run.