Anandpal Singh, a gangster allegedly involved in several cases of arms smuggling and murder, and two other criminals on Thursday escaped and three policemen sustained injuries when unidentified persons opened fire at a van in which they was being taken to the Ajmer jail after being produced in local court in Didwana town in Rajasthan.
An alert was sounded in the State following the incident which occurred in the evening between Gangwa and Khokhar village on Parbatsar Mega highway in Nagaur district.
“Anandpal Singh, Subhash Moond and another criminal managed to escape after three men who came in a vehicle opened fire at the police van. The criminals were being taken back to Ajmer after hearing in a case in Didwana court of Nagaur,” IG Ajmer range Malini Agrawal told PTI.
