Gangster Anil Dujana shot dead by UP Police
Dreaded gangster, Anil Dujana, was killed in an encounter by the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday.
According to reports, Anil Dujana, who is named in over 60 criminal cases and was currently out on bail in a murder case, was gunned down by the UP Police’s STF in Meerut.
Reports said that Dujana, who was notorious for terrorising the public in Noida, Ghaziabad and other areas of the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), had threatened a witness in the murder case against him, barely days after he got bail in the said case and was released from jail last week.
Several reports quoting sources claimed that Anil Dujana had decided to murder the witness, and upon recieving this intel, the STF of UP Police went to arrest him.
However, the operation turned ugly as the infamous gangster and his men opened fire on the cops, which was returned and a gunfight ensued in which Dujana was slain, they said.
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According to reports, the encounter took place in a small village of UP’s Meerut.
A senior police official said that the cops had recieved inputs that Dujana and his gang were hiding out in the village and had launched an operation to arrest him as they had found out that the gangster had issued a threat to the murder case witness.
The official said that the police did not want to leave anything to chance as it was common for witnesses to be targeted and even killed recenly, especially in such cases.
He further said that Anil Dujana and his gang fired upon the STF personnnel leading to an encounter that resulted in the gangster’s demise.
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has repeatedly said that hardened criminals and gangster will be dealt harshly in the state and no mercy will be shown to them.
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