Delhi Police lists 11 gangs for growing menace of extortion, shootings

Delhi Police has identified eleven gangs involved in a continuous spree of extortions calls, threats to businessmen, shootings and killings in the national capital region in the past few months.In an interstate meeting held at the Delhi Police headquarters on Wednesday, the force's chief Sanjay Arora raised the issue of the growing menace of the gangs. Officers from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan also attended the meeting. The police commissioner directed the officers to control the gangs by invoking Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) and other stringent local laws wherever applicable. MCOCA is also applicable in Delhi.Arora also asked the officers to surveil minors associated with these gangsters and keep tabs on social media to know more about their activities.