Punjab Police arrest 13 gangsters related to Jaggu Bhagwanpuria and Amrit Bal’s gangs

LUDHIANA: The Punjab Police on Tuesday "busted" Jaggu Bhagwanpuria and based Amrit Bal’s gang module and arrested 13 of it's "operatives" from various parts of state besides seizing huge cache of arms and ammunition from their possession.


Police said that with their arrest, they have managed to avert many target killings as the gang had already identified 14 targets in Punjab and Haryana on the instructions of foreign-based gangsters.

The police identified the arrested as Mahinder Verma of Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, Ramesh Chauhan of Deepla village in Rajasthan, Gurjant Singh, Sukhveer Singh of Bullepur in Ludhiana, Sandeep Singh of Kaulgarh in Fatehgarh Sahib, Harsimranjeet Singh of Firvaria village, Shamsher Singh of Kot Kesra Singh Johal village, Sarbjot Singh of Basant Nagar, Daljeet Kaur of Jadu Nangal in Amritsar, Charles of Batala, Parveen Singh of Mallian Pakkia village in Gurdaspur, Rafi and Waris Ali in Malerkotla district.

The police also "seized" five pistols, including one US-made, 53 live cartridges and a bike from their possession.

Addressing a press conference at Khanna on Wednesday, IG (Ludhiana range) Dr Kaustubh Sharma, said that the police have also nominated Jagdeep Singh alias Jaggu Bhagwanpuria of Bhagwanpur, Amrit Bal of Bholath (now in US), Pargat Singh of Diggi in Patiala (now in UK), Jack of Rajasthan and Parmod of Amritsar in this case.

He said that most of the gang members were facing criminal cases in various police stations of state.

"All of the accused were booked under sections 386 (Extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt), 384 (extortion), 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC, 25 of Arms Act and 17,18 and 20 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967", IG said.

"Jaggu, Amrit and others were engaging youths through Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms and were providing weapons and money through their handlers," the IG said.

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