Delhi crime branch kills four wanted members of Sigma & Company in a Rohini shootout; over 40 rounds fired, suspects linked to contract killings in Sitamarhi. Key facts and safety notes.
A pre-dawn shootout in Rohini on October 23 left four wanted criminals dead after a firefight that saw more than 40 bullets exchanged between police and suspects, Delhi Police said. The crime-branch operation — a joint Delhi–Bihar effort after intelligence from Sitamarhi police — intercepted a Maruti Baleno with fake plates; when officers asked the occupants to surrender, the four opened fire and were shot in return. They were declared dead at Baba Saheb Ambedkar hospital.
Police identified the deceased as gang leader Ranjan Pathak (25) and three others — Bimlesh Mahto (25), Manish Pathak (33) and Aman Thakur (21) — who were wanted in multiple murder and extortion cases in Bihar. Authorities say the quartet was linked to the Sigma and Company gang and accused of at least four contract killings between July and October; investigators found the group had been moving around Delhi for days to evade arrest.
Crime-branch officials reported the suspects fired about 25 rounds from five weapons (four semi-automatic pistols and one country-made pistol) while police returned fire with roughly 15 rounds in self-defence. Senior officers emphasised the operation was intelligence-led — combining technical surveillance, human sources and on-ground coordination — and noted that some of the suspects had publicly flaunted weapons and criminal acts on social media, which aided tracking.
