The Delhi Police’s Special Cell has arrested most wished petroleum product smuggler and member of the infamous Kala Jathedi-Lawrence Bishnoi-Goldy Brar gang within the nationwide capital, officers stated.

The accused, recognized as Sunil alias Banda, had jumped the interim bail in September 2020 and was wished in 19 circumstances.

According to a senior police officer, a crew of particular cell unit was already working to apprehend the wished and determined criminals of the infamous Kala Jathedi-Lawrence Bishnoi-Goldy Brar gang since previous couple of months and on October 6, a determined shooter of the gang, Rakesh Raka, was arrested.

“The name of Sunil Banda was revealed during the interrogation of Raka, who used to help the accused financially and was also involved in an extortion case of Karol Bagh in which the accused persons had demanded Rs 5 crores from the victim,” stated the officer.

“On October 17, specific inputs were received that Sunil Banda would be coming to Burari area in the evening to meet one of his associates. Accordingly, a team was constituted and deployed there and the accused was nabbed,” stated the officer.

“Banda has a long criminal history and had also served a jail term of five years at Tihar prison. In the year 2016, when he was in Jhajjar Jail, he met other criminals and gradually started managing the whole syndicate of oil theft,” stated the officer.

His affiliate Deepak Rathi would procure all of the details about the situation of oil pipelines by way of one Nepali Pipli and one other Harish used to do work of welding within the pipeline for becoming the valve.

The duty of promoting oil was with Sunil Banda and Dinesh Rathi. After promoting the oil, Sunil Banda alongside together with his associates Dinesh Rathi and Harish used to present a sure sum of cash to the opposite crew members for every 20,000 liter theft and the remaining proceeds from sale was distributed among the many three.