GALLERY OF GANGSTERS

With the arrest of Dilpreet Singh Dhahan in Chandigarh on Monday, Punjab Police have neutralised 14 top category most wanted gangsters active in the state in the last year and a half. While seven have been killed, an equal number fell into the police dragnet and are now behind bars. At least three notorious gangsters are still on the run.

HT takes a stock of the gangster graph

Prema Lahoria

Gunned down with Gounder. Both killed gangster Sukha Kahlon near Phagwara while police were taking him to jail in 2015.

Dilpreet Singh Dhahan

Arrested after an encounter

in Chandigarh on Monday, Dhahan is from Nurpur Bedi. He shot to fame for attacking Punjabi singer Parmish Verma and was wanted in 10 cases.

Gurbaksh Sewewala

A member of the Devinder Bambiha gang, he was

held after an encounter in Bathinda in May 2017. He faces 12 cases of murder, murder bid, loot, and ransom in Punjab.

Saraj Mintoo

Saraj shot a Shiv Sena leader in Amritsar on October 30 last year.

He was arrested in Jalandhar on March 6.

Gurpreet Singh Sekhon

A mastermind of Nabha jailbreak, he was arrested by Punjab Police at Dhudike village in Moga on February 12, 2017. Faces seven cases.

Kulpreet S Neeta Deol

An escapee from Nabha jail,

Deol was arrested in a joint operation of Punjab Police and MP police from Indore on January 17, 2017. Was wanted for six heinous crimes.

Manpreet Manna and Prabhdeep Singh

Both killed in a police encounter in Gulabgarh of Bathinda on December 17, 2017. They faced cases of murder, snatchings and dacoity in Rajasthan.

Jaipal

Son of a former cop from Ferozepur, he is one of the most powerful gangsters in the state. He killed gangsters Jaswinder Rocky near Parwanoo and is on the run since then.

Vicky Gounder

Escaped high-security Nabha Jail in November 2016, Gounder was killed in an encounter in Sri Ganganagar on January 26. He was wanted in 20 cases in different states.

Tirath Singh Dhilwan

Arrested in Khanna last year,

Tirath of Dhilwan in Faridkot was an aide of Jaipal. He was wanted for 10 contract killings and highway robberies.

Ravicharan Singh alias Ravi Deol

A boxer-turned-singer who later took to crime, he

surrendered in a Sangrur court on January 30 after the Sri Ganganagar encounter.

Kamaljeet Singh, Jaspreet Singh and Nishan Singh

Committed suicide in Dabwali

in Haryana on being cornered by a team of the Punjab and Haryana police on June 13 last year.

Jaspreet Singh Goppy Ghanshampuria

Hails from Amritsar district and wanted in more than 10 cases of murder and robbery. He operates with gangster Supreet Singh who is also from Amritsar.