Delhi Police arrest ex-MLA Rambir Shokeen for active role in a crime syndicate

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, November 29, 2016: Congress leader Rambir Shokeen was arrested by the special cell of Delhi police on Monday under provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).

Shokeen, a former Independent MLA from Mundka, carried a bounty of Rs 1 lakh on his head. He was produced before the court of ACMM Sumit Dass which remanded him to three days in police custody. The police told the court that Shokeen was to be confronted with the other accused. He was chargesheeted last year for his involvement in a crime syndicate headed by his nephew Neeraj Bawana.

SHOKEEN’S HISTORY

"Shokeen, who was declared a proclaimed offender, was arrested on Sunday evening from Yuva Shakti School at Rama Vihar in Karala in outer Delhi. He is an uncle of jailed gangster Neeraj Bawana," said DCP (Special Cell) Pramod Kumar Kushwah.

Besides Neeraj and Shokeen, police has chargesheeted Neeraj’s elder brother Pankaj Sehrawat and other arrested members of the syndicate - Sunil Rathi, Amit Malik alias Bhura, Naveen Dabas, Rahul Dabas, Naveen Hooda, Deepak Dabas and Gurpreet Singh. Police, which had named 163 persons as witnesses, claimed that the accused were involved in several criminal cases. Shokeen was elected to the Delhi Assembly as an Independent MLA in 2013.

He later joined the Congress. He was declared a proclaimed offender by the court on August 26 last year. In February this year, a court in Delhi had denied anticipatory bail to the accused, saying that there was incriminating evidence showing he had played an active role in a crime syndicate.