Police to produce Akhilesh and Garima Singh in court today
Jamshedpur: Most wanted gangster Akhilesh Singh and his wife Garima Singh were brought to the city from Gurugram on transit remand by a team of Jamshedpur police here on Thursday.
The police team accompanying the gangster and his wife arrived at the Tatanagar railway station around 9.15 pm. The duo was brought in Jammutavi-Tatanagar Express under heavy police security.
Police sources said Akhilesh and his wife would be produced in Jamshedpur Civil Court tomorrow. The 39 year old gangster and Garima Singh were arrested by a joint team of Haryana and Jharkhand police at Gurugram in Haryana on 11th October last following an encounter at a guest-house early in the morning.
The gangster had sustained bullet injuries in both of his legs and has been admitted at a local hospital for treatment at Gurugram.
Garima Singh was arrested in connection with a cheating case pending against her in Gurugram.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Gurugram police and Jharkhand police entered a guest-house near DLF Colony in Gurugram. On fearing arrest, the gangster who was along with his wife at the guest-house had opened fire at the police.
The police retaliated and the gangster sustained two shots in both of his legs. He was rushed to a local hospital for treatment.
Akhilesh is accused in more than 50 cases of grievous crime. Some of the major cases registered against him include murder of Prison guard (Jailor) Umashankar Pandey, Paramjeet Singh, Businessmen Owner of Sreeleathers Ashish Dey, Jairam Singh, firing on Judge RP Ravi, firing on former District Congress President Ravindra Kumar Jha alias Nattu Jha, on former minister Banna Gupta, ex Police Station officer Arvind Singh, Kabra murder along with extortion money from transporters and businessmen.
Singh who is serving a life sentence in connection with the Sakchi jailer Uma Shanker Pandey murder case, has more than 50 cases registered against him under IPC section 302, 120B, 27 Arms Act, Extortion sections 364A, 25 1 BA, 34, 35, 224, 225, 387,307, 323, 384, 386, 353, 427, 109. 506, 452, 25, 26, 27, Arms Act 35, 114 and 115.
It may be noted that Jamshedpur police was confident of arresting notorious gangster Akhilesh Singh ever since his mentor mentor Vikram Sharma (45), who was absconding since 2008, was arrested by the city police from Dehradun in Uttarakhand in April 2017. The police managed to nab Sharma after they had stumbled upon a bag containing the documents of properties the gangster had accumulated in various cities, including Dehradun.
After executing a `kurki-jabti� warrant by attaching movable properties of gangster Akhilesh Singh at his father�s residence in Sidhgora in December 2016, the district police had sent two separate teams to Noida and another unknown location to hunt Akhilesh Singh.
Police had launched the hunt against Akhilesh after his name figured in an FIR in connection with the Upendra Singh murder case registered with the Sitaramdera police station. In the FIR lodged by Kundan Kumar Singh, the gangster Akhilesh was the conspirator of the murder and three others, namely Harish Singh, Binod Singh and Sonu Singh had executed the murder plan.
Son of Chandragupt Singh, former general secretary of Jharkhand Police Association, Akhilesh set up a network extortionists and shooters, which was spread well across Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
Police said the fugitive has amassed several crores by perpetuating the criminal activities, which was focused on the `extortion� from the businessmen and traders, and even the corporate houses. He used to run his `business� through a syndicate of criminals which has an effective strength of over 100 members. He has even invested the money earned from the extortions in real estate business in Jamshedpur and several other cities in Jharkhand and Bihar, police said.
The 38-year-old gangster stepped into the crime world by abducting the merchant Om Prakash Kabra on July 21, 2001. After his name figured in the Kabra abduction case, he had surrendered in the court on August 6, 2001. He fled the judicial custody on February 18, 2002. He was arrested from Varanasi on October 7, 2004.
