Dilpreet was two-timing the Hoshiarpur sisters
MOHALI: Two sisters Harpreet Kaur, 42, and Rupinder Kaur alias Ruby, 38, who were arrested for links with gangster Dilpreet Singh Dhahan seem to have played an important role in his life. Dhahan was arrested after a brief encounter with the teams of Punjab and Chandigarh police.
The two were produced in a court on Tuesday by the state special operation cell (SSOC) of Punjab and remanded to five-day police custody.
It’s likely that the 26-year-old Baba of Dhahan village near Nurpur Bedi in Ropar, who has been named as accused in 30 cases of murder, extortion, dacoity and robbery, was twotiming the sisters.
Harpreet, who lives in Nawanshahr, and Rupinder, who was living in a rented house in Sector 38, Chandigarh, hail from Hoshiarpur. Their father worked with the auditor general’s office in Punjab. As they lived in different cities, Harpreet and Ruby also seemed to be unaware of the fact that the man whose name figures among 17 A-category gangsters of Punjab police, was involved with both,
Sources also said two others were rounded up from the Mullanpur area on charges of harbouring the gangster. Both are said to be businessmen who gave shelter to Dilpreet after he fired on singer Parmish Verma on April 13.
Though the nature of their relationship was not clear, two bags reportedly belonging to Dilpreet recovered during police raids at Ruby’s house were found to contain his clothes and bottles of Viagra and the Ayurvedic medicine shilajeet (said to enhance sexual performance), said AIG intelligence (Punjab) Varinder Pal Singh .
Police also recovered 1 kg heroin, a .12-bore pump action gun, .30-bore pistol, along with 40 live cartridges and a digital weighing machine, during raids at Harpreet’s home in Nawanshahr, he added.
A case under the NDPS Act, Arms Act, along with Sections 212 and 216 of the Indian Penal Code was registered at the SSOC police station in Phase 1, Mohali.
Dilpreet, son of a veterinary inspector, who died in 2017, is known for extortion and contract killing. He had studied in DAV School in the village till Class 10 and then joined a polytechnic, leaving the course midway. He took to a life of crime after he was reportedly assaulted in his village in his late teens.
Harpreet, mother of two school-going children, has studied up to Class 12 and runs a boutique. Her husband died in 2009 after a cardiac arrest. Dilpreet used to visit her regularly, it is learnt. Officials who did not want to be named as they were not authorised to speak to the media said Dilpreet had been living with Ruby in Sector 38, Chandigarh, for the last four months. Separated from her husband, she also had two school-going children, was a graduate and ran a computer business.
Their brother was a teacher. Both Rupinder and Harpreet had married for love. Dilpreet had met Harpreet through a common friend and exchanged phone numbers before their relationship deepened.
It’s not clear how he met the younger sister, who was working in Ludhiana before she moved to Chandigarh.
“It was only recently that Harpreet had come to know about Dilpreet’s relationship with her younger sister. Initially Harpreet’s children had objected to her ties with the gangster, though Ruby’s children had accepted the relationship,” said a senior Punjab police official investigating the case.
Ruby’s children are now being taken care of by her relatives, the police said.