Contract killer, son of ASI claim to be shooters
On the list of the most wanted criminals of Chandigarh, Haryana and Punjab police departments, gangster Nehra is son of an assistant sub-inspector with the Chandigarh police.
A resident of Sector-26 police lines in Chandigarh, he was in the news for allegedly freeing undertrial Deepak Kumar from police custody on June 17, 2017, in Panchkula. His Facebook status says,’bure hai ham tabhi to zinda hai ache hote to duniya jeene nhi dete’ (We are bad that’s why we are alive, if we were good, the world would not have let us live). He had tried his luck in student politics and was the campus chairman of the Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU). In January 2016, Patiala police had arrested Nehra, and four others, in a case of stealing from ATMS. Figuring among 17 A-category gangsters of Punjab police, Dilpreet hails from Dhahan village near Nurpur Bedi in Ropar and is named as an accused in 16 cases.
He has taken to Facebook claiming to have shot the Punjabi singer. On April 9, 2017, he was caught on camera shooting at Hoshiarpur sarpanch Satnam Singh, 38, outside a gurdwara in Chandigarh.
Punjab Police sources say he is into extortion and contract killing. His father, a veterinary inspector, died in January 2017. Police also claim that Dilpreet took to crime to avenge an assault on himself in the village, but now has links with the Vicky Gounder gang. Dilpreet had escaped while being taken back to jail from a Ropar court in May 2016. Ropar SSP Raj BS Sandhu has met his family at least twice since December to push for surrender.