Contract killer arrested, accomplice injured
New Delhi, June 29 (UNI) Police arrested a contract killer in Malviya Nagar area of South Delhi after an encounter today.
DCP (South) Anil Shukla told UNI that Dharamveer and Sonu had come to eliminate some of the witnesses in a case, when the encounter took place at about 0830 hrs.
In the encounter, Dharamveer was injured and Sonu arrested.
''They had escaped from police custody in Gurgaon three months ago and ever since the police had been on their look out.'' Involved in more than 50 cases of contract killing, kidnapping for ransom and car-jacking, the duo had killed two persons in Etah recently and were involved in several other cases of kidnapping in Delhi and neighbouring states.
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Story first published: Thursday, June 29, 2006, 15:04 [IST]