New Delhi: In a major offshore operation, a team of Delhi Police’s Special Cell has arrested top gangster Deepak Boxer from Mexico with the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The police gave this information on Tuesday. “The gangster will be brought to India in a day or two. He is one of the most wanted gangsters of Delhi-NCR who fled the country on a fake passport,” said an official. Police suspect that the boxer had gone to Mexico in December or January last year. Investigators recovered a passport which had the boxer’s picture on it, but had been issued under a different name. Police said that the passport holder had taken the flight from Kolkata. Got a fake passport made in the name of Ravi Antil from Moradabad and on January 29 he flew from Kolkata to Mexico.
The boxer was looking for a builder named Amit Gupta, a resident of Delhi’s Civil Lines area. In September 2022, the boxer took responsibility for the builder’s murder on Facebook.
Earlier on August 2022, Gupta was shot several times by unknown assailants in Delhi’s Burari area and later died during treatment. The boxer, part of the infamous Gogi gang, was on the run since then. During the investigation into Gupta’s murder, the Delhi Police said that it was prima facie a case of extortion and murder and arrested one of the accused.
Gangster Deepak Boxer claimed on Facebook that he killed the Delhi builder and the motive behind the murder was revenge, not extortion. Further in his Facebook post, the boxer also claimed that the builder was associated with the Tillu Tajpuria gang, a known enemy of the Gogi gang and that he was in fact the financier of that gang. The gangster claimed in his Facebook post that he was killed because of his links with a rival gang.
The post further claimed that the key member of the Gogi gang, Kuldeep alias Faiza, was killed in an encounter with the Special Cell, and that Gupta had tipped off sleuths about his whereabouts.
According to reports, since the murder of gangster Jitendra Gogi in Rohini Court, Deepak Boxer was leading the Gogi gang. The boxer, a resident of Gannaur, had a reward of three lakhs.