PRESS RELEASE
SOUTH DISTRICT
Dated: 20-08-14
 Gangster Anwar Thakur who was on Parole from Tihar Jail where he was
lodged in a murder case for the last more than 20 years after life
conviction,
was
arrested
by
STF,
South
District.
 One loaded automatic pistol recovered.
 Accused Anwar Thakur was also wanted in a recent case of unauthorized
arm haul, recovered from his house in Pandav Nagar on the complaint of his
wife.
A team of STF, South District have arrested a gangster namely Anwar Thakur,
aged 41 years s/o late Maqsood r/o P-50, 4th Floor, Pandav Nagar, Delhi and
recovered one loaded automatic pistol from his possession. Accused was wanted in a
recent case of Arms Act of PS Pandav Nagar wherein arms and ammunition in huge
quantity (5 automatic pistols, 3 countries made pistols and around 100 cartridges)
was recovered from his rented house in Pandav Nagar on 15.8.14.
Brief facts :
Accused Anwar Thakur was released on parole on 05.05.14 for one month.
His parole was extended twice for one month each and 15 days. He was supposed to
surrender on 22.8.2014. Apprehending gang war and attack during parole period,
he had procured huge firearms and ammunitions and kept it all at his rented house
at P-50, Pandav Nagar, Delhi. He got married one and half year ago when he came
on parole last time was staying at the above rented house with his wife. Recently,
he had a domestic quarrel his wife and his wife made a call to the police and all arms
and ammunitions kept at his house were recovered by PCR and local police of PS
Pandav Nagar on 15.8.14. Accused Anwar Thakur escaped from the house. In this
regard, a case vide FIR No. 637 dated 15.8.14 u/s 25 Arms Act was registered.
During investigation, when the identity of accused was revealed as Anwar Thakur, a
desperate criminal and gangster, various detection teams of Delhi Police swung into
action to nab the gangster before he could commit any further serious crime.
Investigation :
The Special Task Force, South District was also asked to develop intelligence
to track the movements of absconding Anwar Thakur and nab him. The team of STF
consisting of SIs Arvind, Shashikant, Vikas, ASI Anand, HCs Suresh, Mukesh, Asgar,
Umesh, Vinod, Ajit, Randhawa, Rajender, Consts. Vikas etc. under the close
supervision of Inspr. Rajender Singh, I/C STF, South District laid a trap on a specific
input that accused Anwar Thakur would come from Meerut to go to Gurgaon area via
Barapullaha Road in the evening in a White Colour Alto Car. The team further got
specific number of Alto Car in which Anwar Thakur was travelling and started
checking the targeted vehicle by putting up temporary barricades at Barapullaha
Road in Lodhi Colony area. Around 7.30 PM, the said Alto Car No. DL-5C-H 6646
was signaled to stop but Anwar Thakur, later identified the occupant of the car tried
to pass through the barricades but the alert police team did not give him any chance
either to open fire or escape from the spot and overpowered him. On search, an
automatic .32 bore loaded pistol was recovered from Anwar Thakur.
Interrogation :
During interrogation, accused Anwar Thakur disclosed that initially he had
committed a house theft in a house in Meerut and was arrested by police. In order
to take revenge, he killed the owner and later his two sons long back in Meerut.
Subsequently, he committed about 15 serious incidents including murders and
dacoities in Meerut. He along with his sister shifted to Delhi and started putting up
in Minto Road initially and later in Kabooter Market, Welcome. He joined hands with
all the infamous criminals of his time namely Tasleem, Saleem Pinni, Aslam Bachra,
Ibrahim @ Badoo, Salim Roti, Ashraf, etc. and committed a series of murders and
dacoities in Delhi. In 1992, he was arrested by Sadar Bazar Police along with his six
other associates when they came to commit dacoity in Ahata Kedara area. Before
police could arrest him, he killed the informer Khalil who had leaked information
about them to the police. In this case, he was convicted for life for murder and
TADA Act. His other associates including Tasleem etc. managed to get acquitted in
appeal.
The story of the rivalry between the gangs of Anwar Thakur who controls the
operations of his 50 members group from within the confines of Tihar and Saleem
Pehelwan started in 2006 when Saleem and his brother Naim killed Anwar’s close
associate Ibrahim @ Baddu. Thakur is a known criminal from Meerut who was a one
time associate of Fazl-ur-Rehman also in jail, who was alleged to be a close associate
of Dawood Ibrahim. He stood against Fazl-ur-Rehman when his brother Ashraf @
Bhaiya dominated extortion business in Bombay and extended threat to the owner of
Topaz Bar, an acquaintance of Fazlu. Ashraf had amassed a good wealth in extortion
business in Bombay and financed the activities of Anwar Gang which dominated Delhi
from 2000 till 2010. Ashraf, his younger brother was killed in an encounter by
Bombay police in 2002.
Another younger brother of Anwar namely Raja Thakur took the command of
gang and killed Saleem Pehelwan in 2010 in association of Akil Don, Tasleem, Salim,
Rahis Ahmed @ Langra, IR Khan in Shahdara. The immediate provocation was an
incident in January 2010 when IR Khan, a close friend of Anwar, was slapped by
Naim, the brother of Saleem Pehalwan during a wedding function. Naim, meanwhile
was desperate to avenge his brother’s killing, hired contract killers and attacked on
Hasim, the brother of IR Khan but he escaped unhurt. Later, Tasleem at the
instance of Anwar and Zargam at the instance of Naim Pehalwan got into fight and
Zargan killed two persons namely Tariq and Taiyeb who were close associates of
Anwar Thakur. Anwar hatched the conspiracy to kill Shamim Chaudhary, an
associate of Naim gang who had been involved in the attack on Hasim.
Anwar
Thakur in order to take revenge hired two killers namely Salim Roti and Ayub who
came to Delhi and shot dead Shamim in crowded Seelampur market in 2010 but
Shabbir Chaudhary, Shamim’s younger brother with his associates lynched both the
killers at the spot itself. In 2010, Shabbir further killed Irshad, an associate of
Anwar Thakur who had given shelter to Salim Roti and Ayub.
Both Anwar Thakur, the kingpin of Meerut gang and Sabbir Chaudhary, the
leader of Sufi gang of Sakhni and Muzzafar Nagar are rivals and are lodged in Tihar
jail in these cases.
Anwar Thakur had come on Parole on May 5, 2014 and since than trying to
claim his lost ground. He had thus purchased firearms and ammunitions from
various persons from Delhi and Meerut to settle score with the rival gang. He had
kept Bobby, Naim and some of their other supporters in Trans Yamuna area on his
hit list. With the recent murders committed by Hashim @ Baba and Nasir which
followed their arrests by the police, has intensified the gang war between groups of
Anwar Thakur, Kamal and Sabir Chaudhary once again.
Further investigation on to arrest the persons who had supplied weapons to
Anwar Thakur and who are trying to neutralize other active members of the gang
based in Delhi and Meerut.
RECOVERY:
1. One Automatic pistol with four live cartridges recovered from his
possession;
2. One Alto Car No. Dl 5C H 6646;
The police personnel involved in good work are being rewarded suitably.
(P.S. KUSHWAH)
Addl. DCP/South District
PRESS RELEASE
Dated: 20.08.2014
A Gang of Thieves Busted: Many Cases of Burglary & Theft Worked Out
Different teams consisting of SI Nagender Nagar, SI Babu Lal, SI Dinesh Kumar,
HC Lalit, Ct. Sandeep, Ct. Dilshad and Ct. Anil were formed under the supervision of
Insp. Maninder Singh, S.H.O./Sarita Vihar and overall supervision of Sh V.K. Nayyar,
ACP/Sub-Div Sarita Vihar and deployed in the area of P.S. Sarita Vihar to prevent the
incidents of theft and burglary. On 13.6.2014 one burglary incident took place at
Jasola Flats. The complainant told that at the time of incident a Black Colour luxury
car was noticed near his flat. The team collected the information from all over
Delhi/NCR in this regard. During investigation it was found that a wanted
burglar/thief namely Sanjay Pahariya with his other associates is committing
theft/burglary in various areas of Delhi/NCR and it was also revealed that Sanjay
Pahariya was using Black colour luxury car for the same purpose. On 14.08.14 at
about 11.00 AM, a secret information was received that wanted criminal Sanjay
Pahariya was staying at the Lodge at Surajkund and his car also parked there. The
Police team of PS Sarita Vihar immediately reached there and apprehended him with
the Black colour luxury car and case property.
During interrogation it was revealed that the said accused is a habitual thief and
burglar and already involved in 30 cases of theft and burglary committed in
various parts of Delhi. He was arrested with a Luxury car in a burglary case in C.R.
Park Police Station, where his car was seized. He had disclosed that he is not attending
the courts of previous cases which are pending trial in the various courts of Delhi. He
was committing theft with his associates Sonu Pahariya and Naresh Kumar. The above
accused sold the gold and diamond jewellery to his associate Sangam Lal Jeweller
(SUNAR). At the instance of the above accused, Sangam Lal Jeweller (SUNAR) was also
arrested from his shop at Lakkadpur Faridabad(HR) and he had disclosed that he had
purchased the gold and diamond jewellery from the above said accused and modify the
gold and diamond jewellery and prepared other jewellery and sold the same to other
customers.
Profile of accused:-
1. Sanjay Pahadiya s/o Amar Singh r/o H No.3/164, Shiv Durga Vihar, Lakkadpur
Permanent Address :- VillageKheragarh, P.S Kheragarh, Distt. Agra, (U.P.). He is involved
Faridabad(HR) aged about 28 years,
in 29 cases. In school days he saw many Hindi/English Movies and influenced with the
living style of Film stars. Soon he began to think how he become like a Hero and drive
luxurious car and wear costly clothes, shoes etc. and went to Pubs, Hotels and Hill
stations with their friends. When he saw his favourite Hero Johan Abraham in “Dhoom”
movie as “Super Chor”, he decided to scale the height of crime through TV Channel
shows especially “Crime patrols” & “Savdhan India”. He noticed the weaknesses of
criminals.
2) Sangam Lal S/O Brij Lal s/o Brij Lal r/o H No.1314, Rajeev Nagar, DLF Area,
Faridabad(HR) aged about 49 years is involved in 6 cases.
Cases worked out:-
S.No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7.
8.
9.
10.
FIR
409/14
407/14
366/14
193/14
536/14
353/14
65/14
199/14
201/14
114/14
Date
13.6.2014
12.6.2014
28.5.2014
23.3.2014
3.8.2014
25.5.2014
12.2.2014
23.3.2014
23.3.2014
30.1.2014
Under Sections
454/380 IPC
457/380 IPC
457/380 IPC
457/380 IPC
457/380 IPC
380 IPC
454/380 IPC
457/380 IPC
457/380 IPC
454/380 IPC
Police Station
Sarita Vihar
Sarita Vihar
Sarita Vihar
Sarita Vihar
Sarita Vihar
Sarita Vihar
Sarita Vihar
Saket
Saket
Hauz Khas
Recovery:-
1.
One Honda city (civic) car purchased from the assets of Burglary.
2.
One Rado watch.
3.
Diamond Rings (Two)
4.
9 Silver coins & 2 silver Bricks.
5.
Four heavy gold chains.
6.
Six bangles
7.
One gold pendant
8.
One set of ear tops
9.
Four gold rings
10. 30 US dollars
11. Cash Rupees 15,000 /- & thousands coins of rupees one.
12. House breaking tools.
13. Three mobile phones.
The police personnel involved in the good work are being rewarded suitably.
(DR. P. KARUNAKARAN) IPS
DY. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
SOUTH-EAST DISTT. NEW DELH