Two gangsters killed, 3 held after encounter in Bathinda
BATHINDA: Two gangsters were shot dead and three were arrested after an encounter with Punjab Police at Gulabgarh village in Bathinda on Friday morning. Police recovered a 9-mm pistol, .32-bore pistol and a .315-bore pistol from them.
The five gangsters, accomplices of Punjab’s most wanted gangster Vicky Go under, mastermind of the Nabha jailbreak, were travelling in a snatched white Scorpio (PB-02-CX-8395) when they decided to split. Three of them snatched a Toyota Fortuner (PB-13-AR-2222) from Nishan Singh of Sunam, who alerted the police.
Bathinda inspector general MS Chhina said the gangsters travelling in the For tuner opened fire at the police team chasing them atGulabg ar hon the Bath inda-Talwandi Sabo road. Three gangsters were injured in the retaliatory fire. Two of them, Ma np re et Manna of Ab oh a rand Prabhdeep Singh from Mamu Khera village in Fazilka, succumbed to injuries at a private hospital, while their accomplice Amritpal from Abohar is admitted to a hospital in Faridkot.
Their two accomplices, Harvind er SinghB hinda of Al am ga rh village in Ab oh ar, and G ur vin der Sing hG ind a from K am alw alain Fazilka district, who were in the Scorpio, have been arrested. Bhinda now lives in Jalilpur village in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh. All five are in their late 20s and early 30s.
Chinna said Harvinder is a cousin of gangster Shera Khuban, who was killed in a police encounter in Bathinda in 2012.
MEMBERS OF VICKY GOUNDER GANG, THEY FIRED AT POLICE FROM STOLEN FORTUNER WHEN CHASED
The gangsters were earlier associated with K hub an, but after his death, they joined the Vicky Gounder gang,” he said. The gangsters were active in Punjab and Raj as than, he added .“A mr itpal is facing murder charges and had escaped from police custody from the A bo harcourt on September 27 this year ,” Chin na said.
The children and staff of government highs chool,Gu lab ga rh, had lucky escape as Bhinda and Ginda entered the school premises by scaling the boundary wall. They were, however, overpowered by police.
The encounter comes two days after the arrest of gangster Darshan Singh Bhoora from a farmhouse at Khizrabad in Chhachhroli town of Yamunanagar.
BOOKED FOR RAPE, COP STILL ON DUTY
Despite being booked for raping a woman, an ASI was on duty and was present at the encounter site.
A SIR anj it Singh, posted in the crime investigation agency, along with two employees of liquor traders, was booked for raping a woman last month.
Woman has alleged that three entered her house on November 19 and ASI raped her while two others kept the door closed. The case was registered on Wednesday.
FARIDKOT Hours after the Bathinda police claimed to have killed two gangsters, Man na and Pardeep,a fan page of slain gangster She ra K hub an A a leon social media site, Facebook, termed the encounter as fake. Over 6,000 people follow the page.
“Interestingly, if the gangsters shot at the police, then why is it that not a single policeman was injured.Also, whydo allencounters take place in Bathinda, where gangsters are killed, unlike at other places in Punjab, where police arrest gangsters,” the post questions.
The post goes on to claim that Davinder Bambiha (who was shot in an encounter in Bat hinda in 2016) and Shera Khuban (who was killed in 2012 by the police) were also victims of fake encounters. Assuming a warning tone, the postmentions that police officers in Bathinda were staging fake encounters to get easy promotions, but“they must remember that a government job does not stay for life”. The officers’ turn to pay for the encounters will come, the post adds.
SSP Naveen Singla said, “The Facebook post has no authenticity. We have followed procedure and ordered magisterial inquiry as mandated by guidelines of the Supreme Court.”