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Five members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang person been arrested successful transportation with the caller sidesplitting of a 35-year-old businessman successful outernorth Delhi's Bawana concern area, an authoritative said connected Sunday (February 15, 2026).
Acting connected circumstantial intelligence, constabulary intercepted immoderate of the suspects earlier successful the day. When challenged, the accused allegedly opened occurrence astatine the constabulary squad successful a bid to escape, prompting the unit to retaliate successful self-defence, starring to a little encounter, the authoritative added.
During the speech of fire, 1 of the accused sustained a slug wounded to his limb and was overpowered. Three accused were apprehended during the encounter, portion 2 others were arrested subsequently, taking the full fig of arrests successful the lawsuit to five, constabulary said, adding that nary of their unit sustained superior injuries during the operation.
Vaibhav Gandhi, a integrative granules manufacturer, was changeable dormant astir 12.50 p.m. connected February 9 adjacent his mill successful Sector 4 of the DSIDC concern area.
Investigators had said that 4 men were progressive successful the attack. The assailants allegedly archetypal attempted to snatch the keys of the victim's car and forcibly took distant his laptop container erstwhile helium resisted earlier shooting him astatine adjacent range.
Police had besides recovered astir ₹1 crore from wrong Gandhi's car aft the incident.
A time aft the murder, a societal media station purportedly issued successful the sanction of the Lawrence Bishnoi pack claimed work for the killing. The post, allegedly from an relationship utilizing the sanction "Randeep Malik Anil Pandit", claimed the execution was carried retired connected behalf of aggregate gangs, including those of Lawrence Bishnoi, Jitender Gogi Maan, Hashim Baba and Kala Rana.
The station alleged that Gandhi was interfering successful pack activities and warned of akin consequences for anyone obstructing their operations, constabulary said.
Investigators besides mentioned that the attackers, who came connected motorcycles, chased Gandhi for astir 40-50 metres portion firing aggregate rounds. One of the bullets struck him successful the chin, causing him to collapse. He was rushed to a adjacent hospital, wherever doctors declared him dead.
