NB In List | Who is Deepak Boxer? Here are 9 facts on how India nabbed the most wanted gangster of Delhi

NewsBharati 05-Apr-2023 12:17:59 PM

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New Delhi, April 5: Who is Deepak Boxer, one of the most wanted gangsters in India? Recently, he was arrested by a special cell team of Delhi police in Mexico and brought to the national capital on Wednesday morning. This came after a 5-member team of Special Cell Delhi Police landed with the gangster at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport from Mexico this morning.

Here is all you need to know about one of the most wanted gangsters of the Delhi-NCR:

Deepak, a winner in a national-level boxing championship, stepped into the world of the crime around 2014-15.

2. Deepak Boxer became head of the Gogi gang after the killing of Gogi in the Rohini court complex in Delhi who was shot dead by two assailants on September 24, 2021.

3. Deepak Boxer was also involved in attacking police personnel at the Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital in Delhi two years ago and helped Fajja, a wanted criminal, flee from police custody.

4.Deepak used a fake passport to flee the country. He took a flight to Mexico from Kolkata using the alias Ravi Antil. Then from Dubai, he went to Almaty, Kazakhstan, and reached Turkey. He then headed for Spain. After taking multiple routes, he finally reached Mexico.

The sleuths retrieved a passport, which had Boxer's photograph on it but was issued under a different name.

Boxer had been on the lookout for a builder named Amit Gupta from Delhi's Civil Lines area. In August 2022, Gupta was shot several times by unknown assailants in the Burari area of Delhi and died later while receiving treatment. Later, in September 2022, taking to Facebook, Boxer claimed responsibility for the builder's murder whose the motive for the murder was not extortion but revenge. He had been absconding since then.

7.During its investigation into Gupta's killing, Delhi Police said it was prima facie a case of extortion and murder, and one accused was arrested.

8.Deepak Boxer was arrested on April 4, 2023, by the Delhi Police's Special Cell from Mexico with the help of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

9. Deepak Boxer will be interrogated in connection with his criminal activities and alleged involvement the killing of builder Amit Gupta.

"Our special cell staff have worked extensively and FBI people are also present here who helped us a lot. Along with this Mexican police and external affairs helped us," HGS Dhaliwal, Special Commissioner of Police (CP), Special Cell, said while speaking to the media here.

"It was a very important operation for us. 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 him. This is a great achievement for the Special Cell," he added.

He further said, "This is for the first time when a criminal has been brought back to India from a place like Mexico." "There were multiple teams including the South-West team, New Delhi, Northern range, crime branch and other ranges were involved in the operation. Five officers team have brought him," he added.