19-yr-old wanted criminal Ashish Bakkawala arrested after shootout in Delhi

A 19-year-old suspected criminal was arrested by Delhi Police’s special cell team.

Ashish Bakkawala was arrested after a chase & exchange of bullets in Delhi’s Prahladpur near Shahbad Dairy in the early hours of Wednesday.Five bullets were exchanged between the special cell sleuths and Ashish.

He suffered a bullet injury in his right leg & is undergoing treatment in a govt hospital.

Ashish was released from Delhi’s Tihar jail in March-April as part of the Delhi government’s move to decongest the prisons to contain the spread of Coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

He was in jail for a murder case, senior police officers associated with the early morning operation said.

After being released, he committed two extortion attempts wherein he fired bullets and demanded Rs one crore each from two different persons in outer Delhi’s Bakkarwala near Mundka in May.

Ashish is son of gangster Manoj Bakkarwala who ruled Delhi’s crime world between mid- 2000 and 2012.

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