A police personnel was injured while intercepting a gangster war, late last night in Nagaur district of Rajasthan.
Five contract killers were in a bid to kill another gangster Anand Pal Singh, who is absconding from the Ajmer Jail.
During the interception, the goons opened fire at one of the police and injured him.
Singh was the head of an infamous gang that is charged in multiple cases of robbery and extortion in Nagaur district and other parts of western Rajasthan.
He had more than a dozen serious-crime charges the most infamous of which was the Didwana murder case of 2006 where he and his gang allegedly went on a shooting spree killing two people and injuring six of a rival gang.
After getting involved in a gang war in Bikaner Jail, Anand Singh was shifted to Ajmer Jail from where he absconded.
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