Sundar Bhati was serving a life sentence for the homicide of a Samajwadi Social gathering chief. (Representational)
Lucknow:
Infamous gangster Sundar Bhati, serving a life sentence for the homicide of Samajwadi Social gathering chief Harendra Nagar and his gunner Bhudev Sharma, has been granted bail by the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom and has gone underground since then.
Following his launch from Sonbhadra jail, sources report that Bhati quietly boarded a flight from Varanasi to Delhi. He’s believed to have since gone into hiding in Haryana, with a Particular Activity Drive (STF) staff from western Uttar Pradesh carefully monitoring his actions, sources mentioned on Saturday.
Bhati, considered one of the vital influential gangsters in western Uttar Pradesh, is from Ghanghola village in Gautam Buddh Nagar district and has greater than 60 instances of homicide, tried homicide, extortion, theft, and assault registered towards him.
Earlier than his detention in Sonbhadra, Bhati was held at Hamirpur jail, the place he reportedly established contact with Sunny, one in every of three gunmen accused within the homicide of gangster Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj in April 2023. Bhati is claimed to have recruited Sunny into his community.
With this connection, Bhati’s identify has surfaced in investigations associated to the Atiq-Ashraf case. Some stories recommend that Bhati facilitated the availability of Zigana pistols, a overseas semi-automatic firearm manufactured in Turkey, to the shooters concerned.
Following Sunny’s launch from Hamirpur jail, he reportedly stayed in touch with Bhati’s associates, finally acquiring a Zigana pistol by Bhati’s community.
The gang chief’s affect has reportedly grown following the encounter killing of his rival Anil Dujana in Could 2023, only a month after the Atiq-Ashraf homicide case.
With Dujana’s demise, Bhati is believed to have tried to broaden his management over the scrap enterprise in western Uttar Pradesh.
In 2015, Bhati and his associates fatally shot SP chief Harendra Nagar and his gunner throughout a marriage occasion in Higher Noida.
In 2021, Bhati, together with 11 of his accomplices, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders.
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