New Delhi: Gaurav Gadoli, 28, wasn’t just a travel adviser in Dubai and later food delivery agent in Georgia. All this while, he was handling logistics, recruitment and extortion for the Kaushal-Bambiha gang—known rivals of the criminal syndicate run by jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. Gadoli was extradited from the UAE on 4 August by the Haryana Special Task Force (STF), marking the final chapter of a three-year pursuit.
The brother-in-law of Kaushal Chaudhary, leader of Kaushal-Bambiha gang, Gadoli had been living under a fake identity in the UAE and later in Georgia. He managed the gang’s finances and also oversaw recruitment of young foot soldiers from north-Indian states, besides trafficking of weapons for particular tasks, sources in Haryana Police told ThePrint.
Gadoli, it is learnt, is facing six criminal cases in Haryana, including in Rewari and Gurugram, pertaining to extortion, attempted murder, Arms Act, and organised crime.
Haryana police are now verifying his criminal antecedents in other districts, besides Delhi and Punjab.
Gadoli is the brother of Manisha Chaudhary, known as ‘Lady Don’ and ‘Ransom Queen’. Wanted in four states in connection with multiple cases, she was arrested in November 2024.
From Class 12 to underworld
Gadoli is a resident of Gurugram’s Gadoli Khurd village, under Sector-10 police station limits. His sister Manisha married Kaushal Chaudhary nine years ago and took the reins of the criminal syndicate after he was imprisoned in 2019.
Gadoli, said police sources, managed to gain significance through Manisha.
A senior STF official said Gadoli had only studied till Class 12, after which he entered the world of crime and came in contact with Kaushal Chaudhary. “He remained in touch with Chaudhary and was also trusted by him. According to his records, Gadoli’s first crime was to coordinate a firing for an extortion incident at a popular hospital in Rewari. That led him inside the gang, and then he was given important tasks,” said the official.
Being gang leader Kaushal Chaudhary’s brother-in-law gave him a leg up.
‘Dabba calling’
Gadoli has been on the police radar and out of the country for three years now. Police sources said that he, fearing arrest, departed India on 30 November, 2023, boarding a flight from Lucknow Airport to Dubai.
He had been travelling since using a fraudulently obtained passport issued in the name of Sahil Yadav, whose father was Krishna Yadav, a resident of Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh.
“First, Gadoli went to Dubai, where he was working as a travel adviser, under the same assumed identity. Then, he shifted base to Georgia, where he worked delivering food. All this while, he was coordinating with the Kaushal-Bambiha gang and getting the job done,” said another Haryana STF official.
The second official added that “Gadoli carried out many criminal activities in Delhi-NCR, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan by facilitating ‘dabba calls’ for Pawan Shokeen, also absconding”. These ‘dabba calls’ are a popular way for members of various gangs to speak with one another since it allows them to conceal their phone numbers.
“Here, a person makes a phone call, and the receiver connects the other person on a different phone call, and they talk to each other on speaker. It is a traditional way of communication, and phone numbers cannot be revealed. Gadoli’s conversations relied on this system,” explained the official.
For the Haryana STF, this is their 13th extradition since 2026. Earlier, Sahil Chauhan, an associate of the Kaushal-Bambiha gang with 16 cases of heinous crimes against him was extradited on 10 April from Thailand. For this, Haryana Police coordinated with the NCB, the CBI, Delhi Police and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
Haryana STF submitted a proposal to the Director General of Police, Haryana, seeking approval for declaring a reward of $10,000 each on four foreign-based gangsters: Himanshu Bhau, Rohit Godara, Randeep Malik, and Anil Pandit. Those mentioned are involved in multiple cases of organised crime, including extortion, targeted killings, and other heinous offences. They have been operating from abroad and continue to orchestrate criminal activities in Haryana and other parts of India through their associates.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said it had extradited 274 fugitive criminals from 36 countries since 2019.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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