The absconding gangster Himanshu Bhau, who has been detained by law enforcement agencies in the United States, had his first recorded brush with the law in 2018, when he was around 15. He was at the time booked in a case of rioting arising from a dispute linked to the liquor trade in his native village Ritoli, in Haryana’s Rohtak district.

By the time he was 20, Himanshu had escaped from a juvenile correctional facility, become a fugitive abroad, and the list of cases against him had grown to 20, of which at least 16 related to murder or attempted murder.

Himanshu Bhau was reported to have been taken into custody on Thursday evening after American law enforcement was alerted about his presence in Las Vegas by Indian agencies.

While Indian officials confirmed his detention, no details were made available by authorities in the US.…