Anil Dujana

In the first four-and-a-half months of 2026, 26 gunfights took place in which 26 suspects were injured and five were killed

Anil Dujana, the “most-wanted” gangster shot dead by the UP STF in an encounter on Thursday, had threatened a key witness in a murder case he had been named in soon after his release on bail about two weeks ago.

No sooner had Anil Dujana walk out on bail last month than the calls went out. The first on the list were witnesses in murder cases linked to him and the Randeep Bhati gang.

Like the contract killer that he was, 43-year-old Anil Dujana's marriage to Puja Singh was also nothing short of one.

Police on Tuesday attached a property worth Rs 1.6 crore belonging to an alleged member of gangster Anil Dujana’s gang. Police say properties worth around Rs 3.9 crore have been attached by them in relation to Dujana and his gang members, so far.

Police today claimed to have arrested five criminals allegedly belonging to a notorious Anil Dujana gang in Badalpur area here.

One of the dreaded gangsters of western UP, Avneesh alias Billu Dujana had stepped into the world of crime at the age of 18 by joining the notorious Anil Dujana gang.

Dreaded gangster Anil Dujana alias Anil Nagar, 40, who had only recently came out of jail on bail and had gone absconding, has been shot in a police encounter by the UP Special Task Force (STF) in Meerut.

Eight members of the notorious Anil Dujana gang were arrested on Thursday when they attacked a police team outside their house in Dujana village.

Six members of a robbers’ gang, including the brother of a sharpshooter working for dreaded gangster Anil Dujana, were arrested on Friday.

Overriding an order the Allahabad high court which rejected the police’s contention to send an accused in the gangster act to jail, the Bisrakh police arrested another member of the Anil Dujana gang booked in the same case and produced him before the court.

Dreaded gangster Anil Dujana and his two gang members have been detained under the National Security Act by the district administration.

Mainpal Dujana, the brother of alleged gangster and panchayat member Anil Dujana, was arrested on Wednesday.

Three members of the Anil Dujana gang were arrested by the special task force of UP police while they were planning to kill members of a rival gang on Thursday night.

Police on Saturday evening arrested two members of Anil Dujana gang who demanded extortion of Rs 1 crore from a local businessman. The criminals forcibly tried to occupy the victim’s 20-acre land by making temporary construction on the site. A team of anti-extortion cell arrested two accused identified as Suneel Kumar and Shailesh when they were going in a Toyota Fortuner car from near Gautam Budh University roundabout.

A 30-year-old member of Anil Dujana gang, involved in several crimes, was nabbed from Greater Noida on Tuesday night. The accused has been identified as Mohit Nagar, a resident of Badalpur in Greater Noida.

A few hours after gunmen shot dead an alleged extortionist in Greater Noida, the youngest brother of gangster Anil Dujana was gunned down by miscreants a little later on Thursday night.

A notorious sharpshooter of Anil Dujana-Randeep Bhati gang, who was absconding after carrying out several attacks on witnesses in cases against the gang and the kingpins, has been arrested by the Special Cell.

Six sharpshooters of Anil Dujana gang have been arrested by the special task force (west) from Hapur, UP police said on Monday.

Three more arrests have been made in the double murder of a 60-year-old man and a cop assigned for his security. Police said initial investigations revealed the involvement of criminals Anil Dujana and Balram Thakur.

The first time that Anil Dujana's name found mention in police records was in 2002, when he was accused of murdering a man in Ghaziabad.