India, Aug. 28 -- The Haryana Police's Special Task Force (STF) and Gurugram police's Crime Branch on Wednesday morning arrested five suspected gangsters, after a shoot-out near Wazirpur on Pataudi Road, who were allegedly planning a fatal attack on Haryanvi pop singer-turned-politician Rahul Yadav, alias Fazilpuria, officers aware of the matter said.

Senior police officers said a probe revealed they were working for gangsters Sunil Sardhaniya and Deepak Nandal, who are operating from a foreign country, and taking orders from them via WhatsApp.

"They were also involved in the previous attack on Fazilpuria, which took place in Sector 71 on July 14 and murder of his associate and financier Rohit Shokeen, who was shot dead at Sector 77 on ...