Operation Bazooka: The True Story behind the Hunt for the Most Dreaded UP Gangster ǀ True crime account of Shriprakash Shukla’s encounter Paperback – 11 September 2023

Who could pump 112 bullets to kill a man in a posh Lucknow locality?Why did a criminal hang around prep schools in Lucknow?How did a phone call to the daughter of a government engineer blow the lid off the plan to assassinate the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?And who can tell the story of Operation Bazooka better than the man who was a part of it! Police officer Rajesh Pandey was among the founding members of the UP STF (Special Task Force), created to nab Shriprakash Shukla – one of the most dreaded gangsters in Uttar Pradesh, The book gives a detailed account of the workings of the STF and how they nabbed the gangster. Read about the country’s first electronic surveillance unit developed by Pandey during the operation and how the police got the only photograph of the gangster available till date. Operation Bazooka is a no-holds-barred, bone-chilling true account of Shriprakash Shukla’s reign of terror and how the STF went after him.

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