<p>A man wanted for the murder of a Delhi Police constable in Jafrabad last month was gunned down in east Delhi’s Sonia Vihar in an encounter with the cops on Tuesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Late on Monday night, it was learnt that Firoz, 28, alias Fauzi, would come to the Sonia Vihar Pusta area to meet an accomplice to plan another crime.<br /><br />He rode into the police trap on a motorcycle at around 5 am on Tuesday.<br /><br />The police claimed Fauzi, fired at the police team first, with one bullet hitting Inspector Shiv Kumar, who was wearing a bulletproof jacket, and another striking a car.<br /><br />“We surrounded him and asked him to stop and surrender. Finding himself trapped, he began firing. We fired back, and he was hit,” said DCP (Special Cell) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav.<br /><br />He was taken to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital. He succumbed to his injuries.<br /><br />No policeman was injured in the encounter.<br /><br />The Delhi Police Special Cell had been looking for Fauzi following the death of Constable Shivraj Tomar.<br /><br />On July 14, the constable was headed to office when he noticed two men without helmets speeding through the narrow lanes near Durgapuri Chowk.<br /><br />Well aware of criminal presence in the area, Tomar chased them.<br /><br />Fauzi’s accomplice, also going by the same first name but notorious as Billori, managed to escape on the motorcycle, but Tomar caught up with Fauzi, and the duo engaged in a scuffle.<br /><br />While the policeman was about to pin him down, Fauzi whipped out a pistol and shot at him.<br /><br />Billori was arrested on August 7 after a brief exchange of fire with the police.<br /><br />CCTV camera footage of the lanes, through which Fauzi had fled after the constable's death, had pointed to his involvement.<br /><br />“But Fauzi kept evading the police by hiding in different places in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan,” said Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) S N Shrivastava.<br /><br />Hailing from Loni in Ghaziabad, Fauzi was wanted in connection with 17 cases, including murder of and attacks on policemen in Delhi and UP.</p>
<p>A man wanted for the murder of a Delhi Police constable in Jafrabad last month was gunned down in east Delhi’s Sonia Vihar in an encounter with the cops on Tuesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Late on Monday night, it was learnt that Firoz, 28, alias Fauzi, would come to the Sonia Vihar Pusta area to meet an accomplice to plan another crime.<br /><br />He rode into the police trap on a motorcycle at around 5 am on Tuesday.<br /><br />The police claimed Fauzi, fired at the police team first, with one bullet hitting Inspector Shiv Kumar, who was wearing a bulletproof jacket, and another striking a car.<br /><br />“We surrounded him and asked him to stop and surrender. Finding himself trapped, he began firing. We fired back, and he was hit,” said DCP (Special Cell) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav.<br /><br />He was taken to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital. He succumbed to his injuries.<br /><br />No policeman was injured in the encounter.<br /><br />The Delhi Police Special Cell had been looking for Fauzi following the death of Constable Shivraj Tomar.<br /><br />On July 14, the constable was headed to office when he noticed two men without helmets speeding through the narrow lanes near Durgapuri Chowk.<br /><br />Well aware of criminal presence in the area, Tomar chased them.<br /><br />Fauzi’s accomplice, also going by the same first name but notorious as Billori, managed to escape on the motorcycle, but Tomar caught up with Fauzi, and the duo engaged in a scuffle.<br /><br />While the policeman was about to pin him down, Fauzi whipped out a pistol and shot at him.<br /><br />Billori was arrested on August 7 after a brief exchange of fire with the police.<br /><br />CCTV camera footage of the lanes, through which Fauzi had fled after the constable's death, had pointed to his involvement.<br /><br />“But Fauzi kept evading the police by hiding in different places in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan,” said Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) S N Shrivastava.<br /><br />Hailing from Loni in Ghaziabad, Fauzi was wanted in connection with 17 cases, including murder of and attacks on policemen in Delhi and UP.</p>