Two dreaded criminals shot dead

New Delhi, Jun 18 (UNI) Police shot dead two dreaded criminals, including one carrying a reward of Rs 75,000 from two state governments, in a brief encounter in Rohini area of North-West Delhi early this morning.

The face-off followed a tip-off that Satish, on whom the Uttar Pradesh Police had proposed a reward of Rs 50,000 and Delhi Police announced another Rs 25,000, would be coming to meet his associates near Swarn Jayanti Park in Rohini's Sector 11 early morning today, said DCP (Special Cell) Ajay Kumar.

''When asked to stop Satish, who was in a car, broke the barricade and tried to escape while firing at the police party. In return fire he along with another gangster Vijay Pandit were critically injured.'' They were rushed to the hospital but died on the way, said the DCP.

''A 9 mm pistol with magazine, a .30 chinese pistol and five cartridges were recovered from them.'' Satish, a resident of Malviya Nagar, had been absconding since December 2005 when he escaped from Haryana Police custody in Agra and had more than 30 crminal cases against him, he told mediapersons.

''A desperate criminal who also made an attempt at a police Constable in Delhi, Satish had seven cases of murder, two of attempt to murder, two under the Arms Act, one of kidnapping for ranson, two of threatening and 18 of theft registered against him.'' His associate Vijay Pandit, a resident of Silokhara in Gurgaon (Harayana), had two cases against him in Gurgaon. ''He along with Jai Prakash and others had killed one Dharamvir in a Gurgaon court while he was being produced in the court in police custody in February this year, Mr Kumar added.

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