HC raises concern over gangster violence in tricity
A LOOK AT RECENT CASES
CHANDIGARH: Taking a strong note of rising gangster culture in the tricity, the Punjab and Haryana high court observed that once known for academic achievements, the area is now being rapidly turned into a “hostile city”.
“..this court is perturbed over the manner in which such goons trotting with firearms pervade the tricity and gangsters have come to settle here, and such steep number of such incidents in the area is a strong circumstance for this court to take a strong view of the incident,” the bench of justice Fatehdeep Singh said, while rejecting anticipatory bail plea of an accused in a firing incident reported outside Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, in January this year.
The HC bench further added that the FIR’S content was strongly suggestive that the accused as well as the complainant side are young boys who have formed gangs and are trying to
Court made this observation while rejecting anticipatory bail plea of an accused in a firing incident outside GMCH-32 on January 10
July 24: Gangster Navdeep Singh Navi of Moga injured and four aides arrested by Punjab Police after shootout in a Kharar locality where they had been putting up June 2: 10 bullets fired injuring four people at a liquor shop in Sector 9 by two shooters associated with Lawrence Bishnoi gang create an atmosphere of threat to society to lay their claim of supremacy and bravado.
Ludhiana resident Jagtar Singh, aka Jaggi, 23, had told police that on January 10, he and a friend, Samar Bhat, had come to GMCH to meet a friend admitted there when four to five men attacked them and fled after firing gunshots. A passerby was shot in the arm.
The incident was allegedly the result of Bhat’s standoff with the accused youths over a Tiktok
May 31: Shooters open fire outside a businessman’s house in Sector 33 on Bishnoi’s orders April 26: Police nab four men associated with Bhupi Rana gang after a fierce gunfight at a house where they were staying at Billa village in Chandimandir, Panchkula video. Police subsequently arrested a Kharar resident besides the youth who had opened fire.
The HC order came on the plea of Nishan Singh Khera, one of the co-accused whose car was allegedly used to flee. He had produced a compromise deed document effected by both parties in this case. Rejecting the plea, the court said it has to invoke its extraordinary powers “sparingly” and the compromise was to “stifle” the investigations.