Team of 17, non-stop surveillance: How cops hunted down 3 hitmen

A 17-member crime branch team led by deputy commissioner of police (crime) Amit Goel was dispatched to Sonepat.

New Delhi: A 17-member Delhi Police team worked for three weeks, leaning on electronic surveillance and a bevy of inputs from their human intelligence network to narrow in on the men who were involved in the Burger King shootout last month, investigators aware of the matter said on Saturday, a day after three men were shot in an exchange of fire with officers in Sonipat, Haryana.

Burger King shootout in Delhi’s Rajouri Garden took place last month (Sanchit Khanna/ Hindustan Times)

The three men were headed for a village five kilometres away, to extort Rs.50