The Delhi Police arrested a 23-year-old TikTok user on Monday in connection with a shooting incident in which two members of his rival gang had sustained bullet injuries. The incident took place in southwest Delhi’s Vikas Nagar near Ranhola on June 1. According to the police, the shoot out was the fallout of a rivalry between two criminal gangs over establishing extortion money from people running betting rackets in Ranhola. The members of the two groups had been threatening each other and looking for opportunities to kill their rivals, they said.

The accused identified as Aakash alias Monu, a resident of west Delhi’s Vikaspuri who featured in a widely shared video that showed Aakash and his friend Shahzad brandishing a pistol. According to the Hindustan Times, the two were arrested by the Dwarka district police and disclosed that they had published the video with an illegal gun on social media to become famous in Delhi’s crime world. Ajit Kumar Singla, the Additional commissioner of police (crime branch) stated that on the intervening night of June 1 and 2, a shootout took place in Vikas Nagar in which several rounds of bullets were fired by six members of Jasmit alias Jimmy gang at members of their rival Suraf Fighter’s gang.