One of suspects involved in firing on YouTuber Elvish Yadav’s held
Investigators said that the suspect, Ishant Gandhi, who sustained a bullet injury in his right leg while trying to flee, faces multiple heinous criminal cases across Haryana
One of the three suspects involved in firing on YouTuber Elvish Yadav’s residence in Haryana’s Gurugram was held after a shoot out in Greater Faridabad between 4am to 4.30am on Friday, police said.
Three masked men fired on YouTuber Elvish Yadav’s residence in Gurugram. (HT PHOTO)
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Investigators said that the suspect, Ishant Gandhi, faces multiple heinous criminal cases across Haryana. They said he sustained a bullet injury in his right leg while trying to flee after opening fire on a crime branch team of Faridabad Police.
Yashpal Yadav, the public relations officer of the Faridabad Police, said that the team attempted to intercept Gandhi after receiving information about his movement. “As soon as the police intercepted him, he fired on them. The suspect fell from his motorcycle and tried to flee while continuing to fire,” he said.
He said that the crime branch team asked Gandhi to surrender, but he fired. “He has been rushed to the hospital for treatment and will be formally arrested after doctors declare him medically fit. A motorcycle, a pistol, and empty cartridges have been recovered from the spot,” he said.
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“It will be clear which gangster he was associated with, on whose directions he fired on Elvish Yadav’s residence, and what was the motive behind it.”
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“It will be clear which gangster he was associated with, on whose directions he fired on Elvish Yadav’s residence, and what was the motive behind it.”
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Three suspects armed with pistols fired over 24 rounds at Elvish Yadav’s residence at 5.30am on August 17 and fled. The incident was captured on CCTV cameras. In an Instagram post, the Bhau gang took responsibility for the incident, claiming that Elvish Yadav and other YouTubers were promoting betting apps, which have ruined several families.
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.
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