Around 2:20 am on Thursday, Ranjan Pathak, Bimlesh Mahto, Manish Pathak and Aman Thakur came out of their white Baleno at the Bahadur Road in Rohini. Headed by one of Bihar’s most wanted, Ranjan Pathak, these were the members of Sigma and Company gang . After conducting five contract killings, they were now being chased.

A team of about 15 police personnel from the Special Task Force (STF) units of Delhi and Bihar were on their toes.

An encounter ensued — they fired at the police, got fired at, and died, putting an end to what had been a year- long pursuit for the Bihar Police.

“They arrived in Delhi on October 13. The Bihar Police approached with information four days ago and that’s when we started to track them,” a police officer who was part of the investigation said. At the

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