The court decided that the person should be detained in police custody for seven days. (Representative)

New Delhi:

A wanted criminal wanted to surrender to court but feared he might be killed on the way. To avoid this, she came up with an ingenious plan: She appeared in court wearing a burqa.

Sohail Khan, 25, a native of Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh, was wanted in connection with a shooting incident outside a businessman’s house in Delhi on October 26.

He filed an application in the Patiala House court on Wednesday before reaching the court to surrender. In his application, he claimed that he was not involved in the incident and said that he was afraid that the police would kill him in an encounter.

After surrendering, he was arrested by the special unit of Delhi Police.

CCTV footage of the October 26 incident shows a man suspected to be Khan throwing a note at the businessman’s home in northwestern Delhi’s Rani Bagh area and firing multiple shots into the air. Khan is allegedly linked to the Bambiha-Kaushal Chaudhary gang.

The note alleged that the accused demanded 15 million rupees as extortion. They wrote the names of gangsters from the Bambiha gang on it.

After the incident, Sohail Khan ran away and many police teams followed him.

Police arrested two of the accused, Bilal Ansari (22) and Shuheb (21), within a week of the incident. One person was injured as a result of the fire opened by the police team during their arrest.

However, Sohail Khan managed to escape arrest and a large team of police went after him.

Police said Khan had more than half a dozen cases of robbery and snatching registered against him in Delhi and nearby areas.

Following his arrest, the court sent him to seven-day police custody for further questioning.