DATED: 01.08.09

MOST WANTED CRIMINAL “KAMALJEET @ BITTOO” CARRYING A REWARD OF THREE STATES FOR HIS ARREST, ARRESTED ALONG WITH OTHER DESPERATE GANGSTER AFTER A SHOOT OUT. TWO AUTOMATIC PISTOLS: ONE ITALIAN AND ONE CHINESE, 14 CARTRIDGES, THREE MOTOR CYCLES RECOVERED. PLAN TO LOOT A CASH-VAN PRE-EMPTED.

INTRODUCTION:

With the arrest of 1. Kamaljeet @ Bittoo, aged 36 years s/o Jagdish Prashad Chopra, resident of H.NO. 30-A/2, Shastri Marg, Mauj Pur, Delhi, and 2. Shakeel, aged 30 years s/o Mukhtiar Ahmed resident of Navjivan Kusht Ashram, Kodhi Colony, P.S. Nand Nagri, Delhi the South District police has finally nabbed the desperado who had earlier escaped from the spot of sensational encounter which took place with the Satte gang in Green Park Extension area on 19.1.2009. Bittoo had been involved and wanted in more than 40 cases of robberies related to banks, their customers and other businessmen carrying cash etc and a reward of Rs. 50,000/- from Delhi and 10,000/- from UP had been announced for his arrest. His associate Shakeel, the brother in law of Satte, presently lodged in jail, was also arrested after a brief encounter with the police at flyover Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium Flyover at 9 PM yesterday evening when he was going back to his home through the Lodhi Colony area after conducting recee of a bank where the gang had planned to commit a sensational crime tomorrow.

One Italian .32 bore pistol loaded with 9 cartridges was recovered from Bitto and one Chinese pistol with two fired and three live cartridges were recovered from Shakeel. Three motor cycles viz. one stolen from Shahdara, one related to an advocate and one related to Bittoo’s neighbour have also been recovered from the possession of both of them.

INCIDENT:

On 19.1.09 a Honda accord car was intercepted by the South District police team in the Green Park Extension area. The occupants of the car opened fire at the police party. In exchange of firing, all the four occupants of the car and three police men received serious gun shot and other injuries. 54 rounds were fired at the spot from both the sides and four automatic pistols with huge quantity of cartridges were recovered. All the four persons were admitted in the hospital whereas four other associates managed to escape in a Santro car and motorcycles. The gang in the command of two notorious gangsters of trans Yamuna area namely Satte and Bittoo had reached there to commit dacoity at a nearby bank. This gang had also committed several bank, petrol pump, jewellery shop related robberies all over Delhi, Rajasthan, and UP during the last one year. Bittoo the co-leader of the gang managed to escape from the spot. In order to secure his arrest several teams of Delhi Police including Crime Branch and Special Cell were also pressed into service but he remained at large despite putting in best efforts by Delhi Police. In order to collect right information/intelligence about the movement of Bittoo, the Commissioner of Police announced a reward of Rs. 50,000/- for his arrest. As he has committed a sensational murder and several robberies in Loni and Sahibabad area during the last few months, thus the UP police had also announced a reward of Rs. 10,000/- for his arrest.

INVESTIGATION, TEAM AND ARREST:

The mammoth task of apprehending Bittoo and his other associates wanted in several sensational incidents was assigned to the team of Lodhi Colony Police station. The team consisted of SI Virender Prakash, ASI Shashi Kant, HCs Satender, Tara Chand, Vinod, Balbir, Rajender and Consts. Sachin, Umesh and Lalita under the supervision of Inspr. Rajender Singh, SHO, P.S. Lodhi Colony and Sh. Vikramjeet Singh, ACP/Defence Colony put in their best resources and sources to nab him. The team laid several traps in the bastion of these gangsters in trans Yamuna area and spent many sleepless nights in the houses where the gangster were likely to show-up any time.

After about 15 days hard work, the team got a specific information about the movement of Bittoo in UP and further in Delhi. He had collected all manpower and weaponry to strike again in Delhi. It had also been learnt that an advocate, a few Sattebaaz, a few property dealers and a few criminals were extending the discreet help to Bittoo and providing him protection money and shelters. Every member of the police team remained in the field round the clock during the last fortnight and laid several traps incessantly. On specific information received by the team, Bittoo was overpowered with an Italian pistol in his hand at Lodhi Road near Nizamuddin Flyover at 8 O’clock on 31.7.09, where he had come to meet one of his contacts. Immediately after his arrest in an Arms Act case registered at P.S. Lodhi Colony vide FIR No. 131 the police team acted swiftly on the information provided by Bittoo, and Shakeel, another gangster and real brother in law of Sat Prakash @ Satte, (co-leader of Green Park Extention Encounter and presently lodged in Tihar Jail), was intercepted by the police team already laying a trap at Kotla Flyover on Bhishma Pitamah Road near Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium. Shakeel was riding a Discover motorcycle reportedly related to an advocate. He fired at the police party twice with his Chinese .32 bore pistol in order to escape. The police party also retaliated and fired one shot in order to apprehend the desperado. After a brief scuffle he was overpowered and two used cartridges and 3 live cartridges with the pistol were taken into possession. A case for causing assault on police personnel while discharging their official duty, was registered at Police Station Lodhi Colony vide FIR No. 132. A stolen motor cycle was also recovered from the residence of Shakeel at his instance along with a stolen chain found in his possession.

INTERROGATION:

On sustained interrogation both the arrested criminals have disclosed that they had committed several incidents of robberies and murders since the time they got released from jail. Bittoo, a Bad Character of Police Station Seelampur had been involved in more than 40 cases of murders, bank related robberies, running bus robberies, attempt to murder, pick pocketing etc. The brother of Bitto namely “Daboo” is also a notorious criminal who is presently lodged in jail along with Sat Prakash @ Satte, Sarafat, Sonu, Shakeel, Nadeem etc. Bittoo and Shakeel have committed following incidents since the time they were released from jail in February 2008 and March 2009 respectively:

  1. On 3.9.2008 Sh. Vijay Kumar, A garment dealer having his shop in Gandhi Nagar Cloth Market reported that while he was going to his home after closing the shop along with his father, Bittoo and Shakeel along with others intercepted them and opened fire at his father and robbed bag hoping money in it. But they could find only tiffin, keys and documents. The gang of Bittoo committed this incident and used sophisticated weapons in order to rob the businessmen. The businessman received bullet injuries and hospitalized.
  1. On 14.10.2008 Sh. Deepak Goyal, having distributorship of MTNL cell phone coupons in Vishwas Nagar reported that while after closing their shop he along with his father and brother were on their way to home on two scooters with cash around Rs. 4 lacs and coupons worth Rs. 5 lacs, two motorcycles occupied by armed five robbers intercepted them at Karkari more, Karkardooma Court and in order to rob the bag they shot at Prem Chand Goyal and Sandeep, the father and brother of the complainant respectively. Bittoo and his associates escaped with the cash and coupons. Both the injured businessmen hospitalized.
  1. On 6.11.08 One Mohd. Agha deals in cloth business while going with his 10 year cousin on motor cycle was intercepted by four car borne criminals in the disguise of police officer. They kidnapped Mr. Agha and his cousin in their car. He made a hue and cry after seeing a PCR van passing through Laxmi Nagar. The criminals threw away his cousin and fired in the air. Later they left the car in Laxmi Nagar. Bitto and his associates robbed him of Rs. 80,000/- and also snatched a motor cycle of a passer by to escape.
  1. On 17.11.08 the gang of Bitto-Satte entered into the State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur in Samay Pur Badli in the morning and took all the inmates at hold at pistol points and later escaped with cash Rs. 23.78 lacs.
  1. On 18.11.2008 the gang of Bittoo committed another sensational bank related crime in Satya Niketan area. In this case 4-5 motor cycle borne criminals, all armed with firearms, robbed the employees of SIPL company dealing in the custody of bank cash/transportation, of Rs. 17 lacs. One of the employees namely Uttam Bahadur also sustained bullet injuries at the hand of criminals when he tried to resist the attempt of robbery.
  1. Shakeel, along with other associates robbed one Sh. Om Prakash Jain and his wife, diamond merchants of Kota, Rajasthan, having their shop titled as “ Aggarwal Diamond and Jewellers”of diamonds and jewellery worth Rs. 80 lacs and cash Rs. One lac and also opened fire when the victim resisted. Shakeel had been arrested from Bombay in this case while disposing robbed diamond.
  1. On 14.12.08 Avneet Matta, the owner of “Amrit Jewels” Lajpat Nagar and resident of Pamposh Enclave was robbed of Rs. 1.30 lacs, one laptop at gun point in the area of Greater Kailash by Bitto and his other associates. Bittoo is wanted in this case whereas other criminals have been arrested.
  1. The gang of Bittoo robbed Amar Nath Bhutani resident of Shivalik, Malviya Nagar and having a chemist shop No. 13, INA market of his Maruti SX4. Bittoo was wanted in this case whereas other criminals have been arrested and SX4 has also been recovered.
  1. Bittoo robbed one “N.R.Jewellers” in ShalimarGarden, Sahibabad at gun point of cash and jewellery. He is wanted in this case by Sahibabad Police and a reward has also been declared.
  1. Bittoo had also robbed Rs. 7.5 lacs from a person who withdrew cash from a bank in Connaught Place.
  1. In the night of 19.5.09 he gunned down one of his associate namely Bharat a resident of Meet Nagar, Nand Nagri, in the area of Indra Puri, Loni on the issue of long standing dispute of distribution of robbed money and also as Bharat was keeping an eye on one lady supposedly intimated to him. In this case Loni Police has announced a reward of Rs. 2500/- for his arrest. Hari Om and Ramesh Pathak were his other associates in this crime. No arrest has been done in this case so far.
  1. He robbed one businessman at Zaffarabad in Dec. 2008 of Rs. 2.50 lacs and gold in association of Satte and others. Annan resident of Bareilly and Satte were his associates.
  1. He robbed one grocery shop owner of Rs. 2.20 lacs in Meet Nagar Main Road in the evening in Dec. 2008 in association of Hari Om, Sunny Patel, Bharat etc.
  1. In the area of Sahibabad he robbed one bronze dealer of Rs. 3.70 lacs in association of Pappan, Rajbir, Shakeel, etc.
  1. In the area of Shahdara at Shahdara flyover he robbed Rs. 3.50 lacs on Pulsar motorcycle.
  1. In Loni and Mansarovar Park area he robbed five businessmen one after another during a span of last five months who were carrying sale proceed of bronze material. All these robberies were executed on the information provided by one Ravinder working as an electrician in factories of these businessmen.
  1. Bittoo and Shakeel both have further disclosed that they had executed and committed a case of armed robbery reported from South Extn., Part-II on 15.6.09 at 11 AM when they shot at Manager of Petrol Pump who was carrying the cash sale proceeds around Rs. 10 lacs. The Manager resisted the attempt and did not handover the bag containing cash proceeds. Efforts are being done to arrest the remaining absconding criminals involved in the crime.
  1. On 14.7.09 Bittoo and others barged into a house in ShivajiPark in the house of one R.P. Khandelwal, a businessman and robbed the inmates of rupee 6 lacs and jewellery.
  1. The same gang extorted Rs. 5 lacs from a businessman in Harsh Vihar area on 14.6.09.

BACKGROUND:

Father of Bittoo and Dabboo used to deal in paint and whitewash. Dabboo was already in the crime of pick pocketing. Bittoo was outside jail at that time. One person with the name of Haseen used to extort money from him. He alongwith one Azad @ Guddu shot at Hasin and went to Tihar jail first time in 1996. Again in 1996 he shot at one Zafar who was working for Anwar Thakur gang. In 1998 he robbed every passenger of bus one by one by stopping bus in Seelampur. He also robbed a running bus in Lahori gate area and killed two passengers who resisted his attempt of robbery. He killed one Mustafa in Loni area, who had teased a Hindu girl in 2002. He remained in jail for two years in this murder case. Again in 2004 he robbed one bronze businessman of Rs, 5.50 lacs by intercepting his car and remained in jail till 2006.

All along this period he worked as a muscleman for a few notorious property dealers such as Ashok Ganga dairy etc. and helped them in taking possession of few disputed plots forcibly with a certain cut in his name.

In the year 2008 he came into contact of Sat Prakash @ Satte and the joint criminal venture of both these notorious pick pockets changed the crime graph of Delhi. They unleashed a reign of terror and a series of crime was reported in all nook and corner of the city. Satte was arrested by the South District police after a lively day light encounter in GreenPark but Bittoo remained at large.

Bittoo used to collect protection money from all the big time Satta operators in the area and sending this money to his brother Dabboo and his other associates lodged in jail. Besides most of the pick pocket gangs operating in trans yamuna area were also giving him ‘Hafta’ for allocation of their route and securing peaceful passage for their operation. He even opened fire many rounds in the area of trans Yamuna to terrorise one Satta operator but the victim did not come forward to lodge a formal report to the police.

From a small time pick pocket he reached to the top ladder of crime and earned a name in the criminal world. He was most desperate wanted criminal of the present time and Delhi Police had launched a massive manhunt for him.

This gang used to meet in the office of one advocate in Zafarabad and information of cash carrying by the businessmen were used to share there through one contact namely Gullu.

The wife of Satte namely Zabina Khatoon @Neha and his brother Shakeel, both originally from Maharashtra were managing the affairs of gang outside on the behalf of Satte, lodged inside jail. He would send the novice criminals to them after their release and they would provide logistics and weaponry to them to commit crime further. These criminals sometime hail from UP and Rajasthan. The involvement of these criminals is being looked into all these cases of robberies reported in trans yamuna area around banks and patrol pump in recent past.

Shakeel is a notorious snatcher and committed more than 50 snatching cases within the last 3 months in the area of trans Yamuna in association of one Vicky of Rajasthan.

Bittoo, his brother Dabboo and Satte are used to extend threat even to police officers on phone and even lay traps to eliminate the police officer who played instrumental role in nabbing them time to time.

In the arrest of Bitto and Shakeel, human intelligence and painstaking efforts of the police team prevailed over the electronic surveillance carried by many police team working on Bittoo and Shakeel.

RECOVERY:

  1. One automatic Italian pistol .32 bore with 9 live cartridges;
  2. One automatic Chinese pistol .32 bore with 5 cartridges viz. two used and three live;
  3. Three motor cycles including one motor cycle stolen from Shahdara.
  4. One snatched gold chain.

The investigation is in progress and more recoveries are likely. The team members are being rewarded suitably.

(H.G.S.Dhaliwal)

DY.Commissioner of Police

South Disttt.

CRIMINAL INVOLVEMENT OF KAMALJEET @ BITTOO S/O JAGDISH PRASAD CHOPRA R/O 30 A/2 SHASTRI HALL MAUZPUR, DELHI

S.N. / FIR No / U/S / Police station
1 / 118/97 / 25 A. Act / Welcome
2 / 288/92 / 25 A. Act / Seelam Pur
3 / 366/96 / 307/34 IPC / Seelam Pur
4 / 381/96 / 25 A. Act / Seelam Pur
5 / 235/97 / 307/34 IPC / Seelam Pur
6 / 405/97 / 323/352/506 IPC & 25 A. Act / Seelam Pur
7 / 107/97 / 379/411 IPC / Seelam Pur
8 / 298/98 / 379 IPC / Seelam Pur
9 / 204/98 / 379IPC / Kotwali
10 / 515/98 / 25 A. Act / Nand Nagri
11 / 488/98 / 365/397/34 IPC / Seelam Pur
12 / 82/98 / 379 IPC / Kotwali
13 / 91/98 / 379 IPC / Kotwali
14 / 164/98 / 379 IPC / Kotwali
15 / 201/98 / 379 IPC / Kotwali
16 / 112/98 / 379 IPC / Kashmiri Gate
17 / 525/99 / 399/402/186/353/307 IPC & 25/27 A. Act / Kashmiri Gate
18 / 529/99 / 21/61/85 NDPS Act / Kashmiri Gate
19 / 445/99 / 392/397/34 IPC / Lahori Gate
20 / 388/2K / 25 A. Act / 25 A. Act
21 / 387/2K / 147/148/149/353/186/307 IPC / Seelam Pur
22 / 160/01 / 308/34 IPC / Seelam Pur
23 / 344/01 / 392/34 IPC / Mukherjee Ngr.
24 / 449/08 / 394/397/411/34 IPC & 25/27 A. Act / R.K. Puram
25 / 461/08 / 394/397/34 IPC & 25/27 A. Act / Anand Vihar
26 / 514/08 / 395/397/34 IPC & 25/27 A. Act / Anand Vihar
27 / 565/08 / 363/365/392/397/34 IPC & 25/27 A. Act / Sakar Pur
28 / 477/08 / 392/34 IPC & 25/27 A. Act / Samaipur Badli
29 / /08 / 392/34 IPC & 25/27 A. Act / Sahibabad UP
30 / 164/08 / 392/34 IPC / Greater Kailash
31 / 16/09 / 327/379/34 IPC / Malviya Nagar
32 / 24/09 / 307/186/353/332/34 IPC & 25/27 A. Act / Hauz Khas
33 / 211/09 / 392/34 IPC / Shahadara
34 / 114/09 / 382 IPC / Harsh Vihar
35 / 973/09 / 302/34 IPC / Loni
36 / 155/09 / 394/398/34 IPC / K. M. Pur

The details of some other crime which he disclosed of having committed in recent past in Trans Yamuna and Sahibabad area will be recorded in the list once the details is received from the concerned police stations.