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‘Lady Don’ Arrested for Involvement in Burger King Shootout in Delhi, Which Killed 1 Person

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‘Lady Don’ Arrested for Involvement in Burger King Shootout in Delhi, Which Killed 1 Person

A 19-year-old woman was arrested by the Delhi Police on Friday for her alleged role in a crime. Shooting at Burger King store On June 18 at Rajouri Nagar, Delhi. According to police, the woman, identified as Annu Dhankar, was arrested at the Indo-Nepal border on Friday afternoon.

Dhankar allegedly aided the Himanshu Bhau gang in the encounter in which 26-year-old Aman Joon from another gang was killed.

Dhankar lured the victim, suspected to be a member of the Ashok Pradhan gang, to the Burger King store on the pretext of a date and stalled him until two assailants arrived and shot him, Hindustan Times reported.

More than 50 customers and 10 staff were inside the restaurant when the attackers fired at least 25 bullets into Joon.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Amit Kaushik said Dhankar’s role emerged as the prime accused during the investigation. She called Joon to meet him and passed the information to her so-called boyfriend, Bhau.

Bhau had claimed responsibility for the murder on social media, saying Joon was involved in the murder of their colleague Shakti Dad in 2020.

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While the two attackers involved in the conflict were killed in a shootout with the police in July, Dhankar managed to escape. Police said the woman was last seen on security cameras at Katra railway station a day after the murder.

A second police officer said that the woman had been hiding in Kota for the last four months, paying for her accommodation. The officer said that since he was 19 years old and looked like a student, he was easy to hide and no one suspected that there were hundreds of students there.

On Thursday, police received a tip-off that Dhankar was seen traveling in a bus from Kota, where he reached Lucknow and later went to Lakhimpur Kheri. We are told it is approaching the Indo-Nepal border. A team immediately went there and caught him near the border,” said DCP Kaushik.

Dhankar came on the police radar after a shooting incident in Sonipat in January. According to police, after the incident, he fled Rohtak and shifted to Delhi.