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morning for 10 days. At the end of this gory run, he fled after a police encounter with four murders and two

robberies to his credit. Among the murdered was the kingpin of his gang, a dismissed ITBP cop, as the gangster Rohit Baba wanted to head the outfit.

The crime branch, however, arrested the fugitive after he arrived in Delhi to start a fresh spate of killings. Joint commissioner (crime) Ravindra Yadav said that the central range unit had received a tip-off about Baba's visit to the capital.

"Surveillance was mounted and sources were deployed to get information about him. On January 11, head constables Ajay and Praveen got a tip-off that Baba would be coming to Keshavpuram Metro station to meet his associate. DCP MA Rizvi constituted a team and a trap was laid. When Baba was cornered, he whipped out a pistol and tried to escape," Yadav said.

However, the team overpowered the accused, seized the pistol and 4 cartridges from him and registered a case under the Arms Act. During interrogation, Baba said that he was the deputy to notorious gangster Aditya alias Prince. The gang committed several murders, highway bus robberies and was also involved in an encounter with the police.

Baba disclosed that on January 6 he shot dead Prince in Baghpat to take charge of the gang. He also allegedly gunned down a passerby after an argument on the street. In the next few days, he killed another rival, Rishipal. A man with political affiliations, who provided protection to Baba, had allegedly planned the murder.

The fourth murder was during a highway robbery. A businessman named Varun Jain was gunned down after he resisted the robbery bid. The crime branch has informed the Baghpat police about Baba's arrest.