Gurugram: Four alleged members of the Deepak Nandal gang were killed and one injured critically in a shootout with Gurugram police’s crime branch late Thursday. Three policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector, were also shot at and are undergoing treatment.
The encounter took place around 11.30 pm in Sushant Lok Phase-2, where the gang members had barged into the house of property dealer Vishal Berry in Block-A and held him hostage, the police said. More than 20 rounds were fired from both sides before it was over.
According to ACP (Sadar) Dharamveer Singh, the crime branch had received information from the police control room about a suspicious Scorpio carrying armed men in the Sushant Lok area. As the police team reached the spot, the men opened fire at Berry’s house with sophisticated weapons.
The gang had been demanding several crores in extortion from Berry on behalf of Deepak Nandal, a gangster who operates from abroad, ACP Singh said. When Berry refused to pay, the gangsters stormed into his house and opened fire. His family alerted the police, and firing broke out from both sides the moment the crime branch team arrived.
The police said they fired back in self-defence, in which all five gangsters were hit. All were taken to a private super-specialty hospital, where doctors declared four of them dead on arrival. The fifth is undergoing treatment.
Berry was alone at home when the gangsters struck. His parents are no more, and his sister is married, the police said.
The five accused had arrived at the spot in a black Scorpio, which the police have seized. The vehicle’s windscreen was shattered in the exchange of fire.
The DCP (Crime) and DCP (East) reached the spot soon after the encounter. FSL teams and other police units are carrying out a technical examination of the site and collecting evidence.
Police said the identities of the slain men, their criminal records, the weapons recovered, and other details will be shared once verified.
The Gurugram police also said they remain committed to public safety and will take strict action against anyone attempting to instil fear among citizens.
According to police sources, Deepak Nandal was a producer and rapper in the Haryana music industry before turning to crime. He fled India in 2023 and is said to be operating his gang from abroad. His current whereabouts remain unknown and efforts to trace and deport him are being coordinated with the CBI and Interpol, putting him in the same bracket as fugitive gangsters like Rohit Godara and Goldy Brar.
Nandal’s gang is primarily active in Gurugram and the wider Haryana-NCR belt, with some incidents extending to Karnal. Attacks linked to the gang include a July 2025 firing on singer Rahul Fazilpuria in Gurugram, August 2025 killing of property dealer Rohit Shaukeen in Gurugram; September firing at the MNR Buildmark office, which Nandal reportedly claimed on social media, and October shootout at Unisys Info Solutions’ office in Karnal.
Police Friday identified the four gangsters killed in the encounter as Deepa alias Sandeep of Fatehabad district, and Aryan, Nitin and Ankit, all residents of Rohtak district. The fifth accused, Shivam, a resident of Mewat, is undergoing treatment for serious injuries.
Preliminary records show Nitin faces two cases in Rohtak for attempt to murder and illegal possession of arms, while Deepa alias Sandeep has 14 cases registered against him under the Arms Act, the NDPS Act and other serious offences. Police said they are still verifying the criminal antecedents of the remaining accused.
Three policemen were injured in the exchange of fire: constables Manjeet Singh and Shamsher Singh, and Assistant Sub-Inspector Sunil Kumar.
Police said the accused had arrived at the spot around 9.50 pm in a black Scorpio with its number plates covered with black tape, and that three of the five gunmen got out and opened indiscriminate fire at Berry’s house and neighbouring homes. One of the accused was filming the attack on his phone, purportedly on the instructions of the gang’s handler based abroad.
Investigators recovered five sophisticated pistols, more than 50 empty cartridge shells, some live rounds and the Scorpio car from the spot. A case has been registered at DLF police station, Gurugram, under sections of the Arms Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the police said.
This is an updated version of the report.
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)