The Gurugram Police on Saturday arrested Sunil, alias Sardhaniya, 39, a wished prison concerned in a number of crimes, moments after he landed on the Indira Gandhi Worldwide (IGI) Airport, Delhi. Officers stated the accused was wished within the firing on singer Rahul Fazilpuria and the homicide of Rohit Shaukeen and had fled India in 2024 utilizing a cast passport.
In line with police, Sardhaniya, a resident of Sardhana village in Sonipat, had been dwelling in Costa Rica and coordinating contract killings, extortion, and firing incidents in Gurugram and different components of Haryana. After receiving intelligence on his journey plans, a particular staff led by Inspector Anand Kumar, accountable for the Crime Department, Sector 31, intercepted him on the airport and took him into custody.
“The accused was wished in a number of sensational circumstances, together with the Rohit Shaukeen homicide and the firing on singer Rahul Fazilpuria. He had fled overseas on pretend paperwork and was now arrested as quickly as he arrived in India,” stated a senior police officer.
Investigations revealed that Sardhaniya performed a central function in supplying weapons, automobiles, and shooters for a number of violent crimes. Police stated he plotted Rohit Shaukeen’s homicide on the Southern Peripheral Street (SPR) and the July 14, 2025, assault on Fazilpuria, when gunmen in a Tata Punch opened fireplace on the singer’s Thar close to Baharampur Street. Fazilpuria narrowly escaped because the bullet struck a roadside pole.
A case was registered at Badshahpur police station, and 7 accused had been beforehand arrested with weapons and the car used within the assault. Sardhaniya’s arrest brings the full to eight. “He was in fixed contact along with his gang members from Costa Rica and coordinated a number of violent crimes remotely. He had additionally provided firearms utilized in a number of assaults, together with the one focusing on singer Fazilpuria,” stated deputy commissioner of police (West) Karan Goel.
Police stated Sardhaniya’s prison historical past spans over 20 years with 24 circumstances of homicide, theft, extortion, and dacoity throughout Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, together with convictions in two homicide circumstances. He had fled whereas on interim bail granted by the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket, utilizing a pretend passport underneath the title Sunil Singh from Delhi’s Vasundhara Enclave.
Police stated he arrived in India through Dubai and was detained based mostly on a Look Out Round (LOC). He was produced earlier than a neighborhood court docket on Sunday and remanded to 5 days of police custody. “We are going to interrogate him totally about his community, weapon suppliers, and abroad contacts. Extra arrests are more likely to comply with,” Anand Kumar, in cost crime department unit, Sector 31.
