nagpur the ajni police team dramatically found itself amidst a real life gang war but stopped it before it could turn bloody the incident which could have got out of hand if the patrolling squad were late even by a few minutes took place near wanjari nagar water tank on saturday night unconfirmed reports talked of shooting taking placepolice seized eight swords and one empty sheath five spearlike weapons a rod a countrymade revolver and five live cartridges it is one of the biggest arms hauls made by city police in a single incident in the last few years virendra lonare alias girjya whose wife is a corporator from babulkheda locality was also involved in the gang war police are now searching for himgirijya was with his gang members at the residence of john guldeokar at wanjari nagar police sources said that girjya and his accomplices had received an information another gang led by one rockys nephews was looking for them the nephews had teamed up with the gang that had allegedly murdered balu mandpe at chandan nagarrocky himself was murdered and girjya was considered the mastermind in that case his nephews now wanted to avenge their maternal uncles murder the nephews also took sachin wasnik who was recently released from jail with them wasnik has faced three murder charges so far he joined hands with rockys nephews in order to get their support to eliminate tarachand khillare who is absconding after committing double murders under imambada police station limitsajni police were already patrolling the locality after control room alerted them about a white car roaming the streets with armed men inside it during this time some personnel of detection branch got information that there was a clash going on in one of the lanes of wanjari nagarhead constable dharmendra sarode constable waman thomre and two others zeroed in on the spot that prompted the goons to disperse in the dark towards government medical college and hospital the constables on bike had to discontinue their search as there were barbed wires along the hospital boundary they however conducted a search in the locality under their senior officerspolice said that wasnik was found injured in the field while the rest fled a search led by senior inspector rajendra mayne subinspector sripad neware constable manoj neware nandu kuhikar and others was conducted police said that home of john guldeokar who was spotted hurling a weapon inside his house while fleeing was searchedguldeokar had hid several weapons at various places in garden and courtyard he knew there could be an attack anytime on his life attempts had been made on girjya twice before rockys nephews and his gang including wasnik did not expect that their the rivals would be ready to face them senior inspector mayne said that the police are sending the firearm to ballistic experts to ascertain whether there was any firing