GURUGRAM, Oct. 15 -- A 32-year-old man, who had been on the run after escaping from police custody in 2018, was shot dead in a gunfight on the Nuh-Gurugram border on Thursday after he fired at a police team that was following up on a cattle smuggling tip, police said.

Police said the deceased was identified as Mohammad Shahid, a resident of Kharkhari village in Tauru, Nuh. His associate, however, managed to escape.

According to police, Shahid was involved in at least 30 cases in Gurugram, Nuh, and Rajasthan, including attempt to murder, rape, robbery, cattle smuggling, and ATM heists. He was last arrested in 2018 when he escaped from the custody of a Gurugram police crime branch team.

Police said a Mahindra Thar vehicle in which he was...