New Delhi: Deepak Boxer, one of Delhi's most-wanted gangsters who was nabbed by the police authorities in Mexico, was brought to New Delhi on Wednesday, officials said.
At around 6 am this morning, a two-member team from the Delhi Police's Special Cell arrived with Deepak at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport from Mexico through Istanbul.
He will be interrogated in connection with his criminal activities and alleged involvement in killing a builder in north Delhi's Civil Lines area, police said.
Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) HGS Dhaliwal said, "Action has been taken against the fugitives on the instructions of Home Minister. It is a big success that for the first time (a criminal) has been brought from a place like Mexico through coordinated action. The Special Cell of Delhi Police was following him (Gangster Deepak Boxer) for several months. There is no other bigger gangster in Delhi-NCR than this. Several teams have worked on this."
The gangster, a winner in a national-level boxing championship, was trying to enter the US illegally via Mexico and planning to run his organised crime gang in Delhi and neighbouring states from there before being caught, Dhaliwal said, according to PTI.
Dhaliwal said that the gangster had taken multiple routes and stops to reach Mexico on his way to the US (“donkey” method).
But he landed in their net laid with the help of the office of the Legal Attache, US Embassy, New Delhi.
"We received inputs in January that Deepak got made a fake passport in the name of Ravi Antil from Bareilly to flee the country. He took a flight from Kolkata to Dubai. Then from Dubai, he went to Almaty, Kazakhstan, and reached Turkey. He then headed for Spain. After taking multiple routes, he finally reached Mexico,” PTI reported Dhaliwal as saying.
“Our teams were constantly tracking his routes,” he said at a press conference on Tuesday.
He said Delhi Police zeroed in on the gangster’s location in Cancun, a city notorious for human traffickers and the narcotics mafia, after interrogating several of his aides and using technical inputs.
“His intention behind reaching Mexico was to reach America, with the help of human traffickers, where he would join his other associates. From there, he had planned to run his organised crime group in Delhi and neighbouring states,” Dhaliwal added.
It was the first time that Delhi Police arrested a gangster in an operation outside the country.
The gangster is wanted in India in 10 sensational cases, including murder and extortion, over the last five years, police said.
Boxer, who is part of the infamous Gogi gang, was on the run since he killed a builder named Amit Gupta in August 2022.
He had been leading the Gogi gang after the murder of its head Jitendra Gogi inside the Rohini court complex by two men in September 2021.