Dreaded gangster Kaushal brought back to India

Gurugram: It was a deja vu moment for the Haryana police and the government as months of it strenuous and tacit effort finally bore fruit with the dreaded gangster Kaushal being brought back to India. The 37-year-old arrived in Delhi at around 3:30 am on Monday.

After his arrival, he was produced in Gurugram district courts where he was sent on four-day police remand.

"The arrest of Kaushal is a big achievement for our team. We now hope that with this arrest the fear that was prevalent among the businessmen of being called randomly for ransom will stop," said KK Rao, the new Faridabad Police Commissioner, whose earlier stint as STF chief was key in the arrest of the feared gangster.

The terror of Kaushal gang can be gauged from the fact that in just this year itself there have been four murders that have occurred in Gurugram.

Just as in the case of Vikas Chaudhary, the victims were gunned down in the busy streets. In one of the murders, the sharpshooters pumped twelve bullets into the body of a village head in Manesar.

The increased number of criminal incidents had resulted in the special task force and Gurugram police training their guns on weakening the ground and in just this year itself, 44 people from his gang have been arrested. Despite the setbacks, the 38-year-old who is based in Dubai continues to be a challenge the law enforcement officials.

In December 2016, he jumped parole when he was let out of Bhondsi jail. The son of a property dealer in Naharpur Rupa village, Kaushal used to sell and fix submersible pumps. His started his criminal activities in 2004, in a land dispute with gangster Sudesh alias Chhelu. Their fight resulted in nine murders, who stopped on December 12, 2006, when Kaushal's men shot dead Chhelu in police custody at Rajiv Chowk.

Meanwhile, the rivalry between the city's two biggest gangsters, Binder Gujjar and Sandeep Gadoli, appeared to have ended, after Gadoli was eliminated by Gurugram police in Mumbai on February 7, 2016. Kaushal then teamed up with Surender Gang to murder Gujjar's brother Manish and aide Mahesh 'Attack' in March 2017. Geong was hoping to eliminate his rivals to expand his gambling and illicit liquor businesses in Gururugram. He was eventually killed in an encounter in Karnal in April 2017.

To eliminate his rivals, Kaushal also joined hands with the Rajesh Bharti gang but Bharti and his aides Sanjeet Badro and Umesh Don who were recently eliminated by Delhi Police in Chhattarpur.