Regarding the encounter of gangster Asad Ahmad and his aide Ghulam, Puja Pal, wife of slain Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Raju Pal on Friday said that there is a punishment for those who take law in their hands.
The miscreant, identified as Jai Kishan alias Rohit, hailing from Bihar and currently living in Azad Nagar, Delhi, is a mobile snatcher who has earlier been jailed under the Gangster Act and was recently released, the police said.
The incident took place in the Indirapuram area of Ghaziabad. Following this, Police party retaliated and in due course one of them got injured. Police said both men had over half a dozen cases of robbery and theft against them.
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