gurgaon notorious gangster mahesh 34 alias attack son of former sarpanch of jharsa village was shot dead in sector 31 near jharsa chowk at around 10pm on wednesday nightaccording to police mahesh was sitting in a stationary scorpio near his office when three men approached in a xuv500 and fired more than 10 bullets at him the gangster was rushed to medanta the medicity by bystanders where doctors declared him brought deadmahesh received eight gunshot injuries and was in a critical condition when he was brought into the hospital where he died soon after said a senior police officer it might be a case of intergang rivalry we are investigating the matter said anil yadav the acp of sadar police stationit is worth recalling that mahesh was involved in 18 cases of attempted murder extortion and snatching in gurgaon he was known as the right hand of another gangster binder gujjar the rival of slain gangster sandeep gadoli sources said mahesh in connivance with the jailed gujjar had wanted to eliminate gadoli before the latter was killed in a police encounter in mumbai on february 7 with the names behind haryanas two biggest gangs sandeep gadoli and binder gujjar out of the way the police department had been alert to many small gangs that began cropping up trying to take charge of the nowheadless underworldaccording to a senior police official gadoli and his arch rival gujjar were mainly engaged in real estate deals involving disputed land extortion and supply of illegal liquor with the big fish out of picture smaller gangs are planning a takeover it could mean more gang wars which broke out with alarming frequency last year when gadoli and gujjars men clashed two months ago when police nabbed a wanted criminal naveen he disclosed that mobster surinder geong had formed a new gang to bump off rivals by joining hands with yet another gangster kaushal who had jumped paroleprison is no hindrance for those lodged in jails according to sources a citybased businessman was shocked to receive a letter from a dreaded gangster currently in jail in which the gangster sought funds from him to pay his lawyer according to a senior police officer there are currently 10 gangs active in gurgaon were on the lookout for every criminal khirwar told toi weve not received any complaints of threat or extortion by any gangster were also focusing on criminals on the run he added