The four wanted gangsters from Bihar’s Sitamarhi district, who were killed in a late-night encounter with a joint team of the Delhi Police Crime Branch and Bihar Police on Bahadur Shah Marg in Delhi’s Rohini early Thursday morning, had been attempting to spread unrest ahead of Assembly polls, police say.

According to IPS Kundan Krishnan, Additional Director General (ADG) of Bihar Police Headquarters and Operations, the encounter occurred around 2:20 am between Dr Ambedkar Chowk and Pansali Chowk in Rohini. “The main shooters of the Sitamarhi-based criminal gang ‘Sigma & Company’ – Ranjan Pathak, Aman Thakur, Vimlesh Mahato, and Manish Pathak – were injured in the exchange of fire and taken to Dr B.S.A. Hospital in Rohini, where doctors declared them dead,” he said.

The ADG said that

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