India, Oct. 3 -- Two members of the Rohit Godara-Goldy Brar-Virender Charan gang who were allegedly tasked with the murder of comedian Munawar Faruqui were arrested after a brief exchange of fire, the Delhi Police Special Cell said on Thursday.

On the instructions of gangsters Godara and Charan, the two, identified as Rahul, who goes by one name, and Sahil Kumar, had allegedly been following Faruqui for months, including when he was in Mumbai and Bangalore, and were planning to kill him.

They were shot in the legs after they opened fire at police on the Jaitpur-Kalindi Kunj Road, early on Thursday.

Police caught the two after receiving inputs that a gangster from Charan's gang, who had allegedly been involved in a triple murder case in...