History sheeter from Ghaziabad caught in Bharuch

Surat: The Bharuch local crime branch (LCB) on Wednesday arrested a notorious criminal for illegally possessing weapons. Police seized a pistol, two country-made revolvers and 29 live cartridges from Rahul Singh Khandelwal.
The LCB arrested Khandelwal from Sevashram Road in Bharuch on Wednesday morning. Khandelwal is from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.He used to live in Jadeshwar locality of Bharuch town. He had parked his car on the roadside near Reliance shopping mall when he was arrested.
Police said that Khandelwal was involved in numerous criminal cases in Ghaziabad ranging from murder, extortion to kidnapping. Khandelwal escaped from Ghaziabad. He had been staying in Bharuch for the past eight years.
Khandelwal used to live in the house owned by one Hirava Tapiyawala, widow of Sunil Tapiyawala, who was murdered in 2013. In 2013, Khandelwal was lodged in Bharuch sub-jail in a suicide abetment case where he developed an intimate relationship with Hirava Tapiyawala. When he was released from the jail, Khandelwal started living with Hirava at her house in Jhadeshwar.
Rajendrasinh Chudasama, Bharuch superintendent of police, said, “Khandelwal has a notorious past in Ghaziabad. The car from which the weapons were recovered is owned by Hirava Tapiyawala. We are yet to find out about the weapons recovered from Khandelwal. Whether he was going to deliver the weapons to someone or he was going to use them in some crime.”