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Mastermind in Apex Bank robbery attempt arrested in Jodhpur

JODHPUR: In a major breakthrough, Jodhpur police arrested the mastermind of infamous Apex Bank heist attempt of Jaipur in 2018 and Jail Guard Recruitment Examination 2016 paper leak Hanuman Bishnoi (21) on Tuesday. He was out on bail and was engaged in smuggling of poppy husk in Pali and Johdpur . Jodhpur police had been hunting him after he was featured in a viral video with his gang members waiving weapons sometime back.



On Tuesday morning, police received a tip off that Hanuman had been seen in village Rajala Dasri in Lohawat, following a team was sent to nab him. “We succeeded in arresting Hanuman Bishnoi alias Laden in a chase of his vehicle along with one Mangilal Bishnoi and recovered one pistol and three live cartridges from them,” said the SP (Jodhpur Rural) Rahul Barhat.

Hanuman has many cases registered against him in Jodhpur and Jaipur for theft, loot, cheating and under Arms Act.

Barhat said that he is an active member of the gang run by notorious gangsters Ashok Jakhar and Shyam Manju, who identifies his gang as 007. “Sometime back a video had gone viral in which five members of the gang had been dancing to a Bollywood number brandishing weapons in their hands in a village in Lohawat near Jodhpur and he was one of them,” said Barhat.

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