Dehradun police grill Punjab gangster Simma

DEHRADUN: The Dehradun police on Monday grilled Punjab’s wanted gangster Harsimrandeep Singh, alias Simma, who was arrested along with his three accomplices from the state capital in a joint operation by the Punjab and Dehradun police.

Simma, who was found hiding in Rajendra Nagar area of Dehradun, was remanded to two-day police custody by a Dehradun court on Sunday, a day after his dramatic arrest.

“We along with Punjab Police interrogated Simma and the other accused on their network, other gang members associated with them and criminal activities carried out by them,” Dehradun senior superintendent of police (SSP) Nivedita Kukreti Kumar said, adding police will work on the leads thus gained during the interrogation.

A dreaded gangster, Simma carried a reward of ₹2 lakh on his arrest in Punjab, where he was wanted in many cases of extortion, murder, loot at gunpoint and abduction.

Hailing from Faridkot district area of Punjab, he had murdered a rice mill owner in Jaitu last year and even confessed to the crime on a Facebook post.

“Since most of the cases against Simma are in Punjab, they (Punjab Police) will be taking him along on warrant-b (required for taking an accused to other state) to carry out further investigation,” the SSP said.

Officials from the Punjab’s crime investigation agency are in Dehradun.