Finally, Sewewala gang saga comes to an end
FARIDKOT : With the arrest of wanted gangster Harsimrandeep Singh alias Simma, Faridkot has finally got rid of the horror of the Sewewala gang which was active in the district since 2011.
While kingpin of the gang, Gurbaksh Sewewala, was arrested by the Bathinda police in 2017, its three top gangsters were killed in an encounter by the Faridkot police in Dabwali of Haryana in June last year.
The gang, started by gangster Ranjit Singh Sewewala along with slain gangster Davinder Bambiha who was also killed in an encounter by the Bathinda police in 2016, mostly had Jaitu sub-division as its target base. Later, the gang started spreading its tentacles.
In 2013, Ranjit Sewewala was killed by the Sewewala sarpanch’s son. Later his brother Gurbaksh took over the group and avenged his brother’s death by killing two members of the sarpanch’s family.
On June 13, 2017, the Faridkot police killed top three gangsters of the group — Karamjit Singh Dhillon, Jaspreet Singh and Nishan — in encounter. Gurbaksh was arrested on August 21. After Gurbaksh’s arrest, Harsimrandeep Simma and Sukhjeet Singh alias Buddha Khosa took over and ran an extortion racket in Jaitu.
In July last year, Simma and Buddha Khosa gunned down rice mill owner Ravinder Kocchar who refused to pay extortion money to the gang.