India, June 22 -- A gangster carrying Rs.1.25 lakh bounty was killed in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Police in Saharanpur in the early hours of Monday, officials said.

UP Police additional director general (ADG), Law and Order, Amitabh Yash said that Lalan Singh alias Lallan, wanted in a string of high-profile murders, bank robberies and attacks on police personnel, was a native of Anandgolwa village in Bihar's Samastipur district.

Singh sustained bullet injuries during an exchange of fire with a police team on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday on the Sarsawa-Nakur road in Saharanpur district.

He was first taken to the community health centre in Sarsawa and later referred to the district hospital in Saharanpur, where do...