MEERUT: Over 10 months after dramatically slipping out of police’s clutches, UP’s most wanted gangster Badan Singh Baddo again sprung a surprise with a social media post pinning his location to Rotterdam, a port city in Netherlands , stirring UP police into action which has been trying to trace the maverick don in the country.UP police’s Special Task Force (STF), tasked to nab the missing gangster, said that it could a ploy by Baddo to deflect police’s attention. However, the cyber cell of police has been alerted and asked to probe the activity.“We were told about the social media activity on Tuesday evening. Cyber cell has been alerted and a probe has begun,” Ajay Sahni, Meerut's senior superintendent of police (SSP) said.On Tuesday evening, two Facebook posts were made from the account of ‘ Badan Sandhu ’, believed to be of the gangster.While one update was about his location, which was pinned to Netherlands, the other was a rant against a former UP DGP in which he spoke about “criminal nexus of police and mafias in fuelling organised crime in the state in past”.STF’s Meerut unit, which has been leading the investigation to find Baddo, claimed that the social media activity was most likely an attempt to derail the ongoing investigation. The agency is yet to clinch a breakthrough in the last 10 months.“We have begun investigation in the Facebook updates made from the account. This could be an attempt to mislead the ongoing probe. There is also a fair chance that he got it done from someone else. He has tried to mislead police in the past through internet calls, making it appear that he is calling from outside the country,” STF DSP Brijesh Singh said.With more than 30 cases of murder, robbery, loot and extortion, Baddo, who was serving life sentence, is currently the most wanted criminal in UP and carried a reward of Rs 2.5 lakh on his head.In May last year, over a month after his escape from police custody, an audio recording of Baddo in which he was purportedly in conversation with a business rival in Meerut had gone viral on social media. In the recording, Baddo was threatening the man at the other end of dire consequences if his son was not given a clean chit in the ongoing police investigation into his escape. His son, Sikandar, was made a co-conspirator in the escape.Baddo escaped on March 28 last year after allegedly entertaining police personnel in a Meerut hotel where alcohol laced with sedatives was served. 17 people including nine policemen were booked for their alleged role in Baddo’s escape.Known for bespoke tuxedos, Swiss watches and luxury vehicles, the gangster owns a palatial house in Meerut and is said to own businesses in Australia where his estranged wife and daughters are settled.