Chandigarh: An encounter broke out between police and gangsters near Zirakpur and gangster Yuvraj Singh alias Jora has been injured in the encounter.

Constable Kuldeep Singh Bajwa, who was martyred in the Phillaur firing incident, in which the main accused Yuvraj Singh alias Jora, was absconding.

The accused Jora was staying in a hotel named ‘Alps’ at Dhakoli in Zirakpur under the fake identity of Ramzan Malik. Acting on a tip-off, a team of AGTF led by AIG Sandeep Goyal and DSP Bikram Brar cordoned off hotel ‘Alps’ and confirmed the presence of accused Jora in room number 105 of the hotel from the manager of the hotel.

This confirmation resulted in the AGTF team offering to surrender to the accused. But accused Zora opened fire on the AGTF team. After which the AGTF also fired back and in this immediate encounter, it is being told that Jora was hit by police bullets in both legs.

According to top police officials, the gangster was admitted to the GMCH Hospital in Sector 32, Chandigarh, which is undergoing treatment. Two pistols of 32 caliber were also recovered from the accused.

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Ludhiana: A few days ago, the mobile phone of a foreign youth was stolen, which has been recovered by the Ludhiana police and handed over to him on Saturday.

“Mobile phone of Norway citizen, Aspen was snatched in ludhiana during Solo World Cycling Tour. Acting promptly, Case solved within 48 hours, both the snatchers are caught and robbed mobile handed back,” Ludhiana police wrote in a tweet.

Punjab Police said in a tweet wrote that Espen Lilleengen, a Norwegian citizen on World Bicycle Tour lost his personal belongings to the snatchers in Ludhiana. Taking swift action Ludhiana Police arrested the culprits within 2 days & handed over the mobile to the victim after recovery.

Commissioner of Police Mandeep Sidhu said that two robbers have been arrested by the police team. Some people who helped the foreigner will be honoured by the Punjab Police with certificates.

Espin is on a world tour on his bicycle. His mobile phone was snatched on December 14 under the police station Moti Nagar. Now, he expressed happiness on getting the mobile back and thanked the police.

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Chandigarh: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its anti-corruption campaign on Thursday, has registered a corruption case against a senior medical officer (SMO), Dr Satnam Singh, who was posted at civil hospital Majitha for demanding a bribe of Rs 1,15,000.

Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson of the VB said the accused SMO, resident of Friends Avenue, Amritsar, has been arrested after investigation of an online complaint lodged at the Chief Minister’s anti-corruption helpline.

Giving details he added that the complainant Malkiat Singh resident of village Athwal, Amritsar district informed that the above said SMO has demanded and accepted Rs 1,15,000 as a bribe for issuing him a medico legal report regarding a police case.

The spokesperson added that the VB has investigated the allegations levelled in complaint and registered a corruption case against the above mentioned SMO after finding him guilty for demanding and accepting a bribe money. In this regard the VB has registered a case under Prevention of Corruption Act at VB police station Amritsar. Further investigation in this case was under progress, he added.

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Chandigarh: The Punjab Police today busted a terror group run by Canada’s Lakhbir Landa and Pakistan’s Harvinder Rinda, who were also being aided by the ISI.

This was disclosed by the Punjab DGP in a tweet. He said that on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, the Punjab Police has achieved great success in making Punjab crime free.

Police have arrested two members of the outfit with an AK-56 rifle, two magazines and 90 live cartridges.

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CHANDIGARH: Amidst the ongoing investigations, Punjab Police on Tuesday has arrested three persons involved in facilitating the escape of Gangster Deepak Tinu from police custody in Mansa. The Police have also recovered a Black Skoda car bearing registration number PB11CJ1563, which was used in the crime, from their possession.

Those arrested have been identified as Kuldeep Singh alias Kohli, Rajveer Singh alias Kazama and Rajinder Singh alias Gora, all resident of Ludhiana. Kuldeep Kohli is a gym owner and was into the business of drugs under the garb of running a gym.

Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav said that an ongoing investigation revealed that the trio accused persons were close associates of Tinu and they had helped Tinu escape from police custody, following which the Anti Gangster Task Force(AGTF) and Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Punjab Police have arrested them from Ludhiana.

He said that the investigations revealed that on October 1, Deepak Tinu had directed Kohli, to send a woman associate, who helped in Tinu’s escape along with his allies at CIA Mansa. Rajveer Singh along with his accomplice identified as Gagandeep Khaira of Ludhiana picked a woman accomplice from Zirakpur and dropped her near CIA Mansa along with a bag of clothes provided by Kohli, he said, adding that the Police teams are on a manhunt to nab Gagandeep.

The DGP said that accused Kuldeep Kohli has remained associated with Deepak Tinu for the last two years, when they both were lodged in Kapurthala Jail. Kohli was released on bail in the year 2021, following which he along with Tinu’s other Haryana-based associates indulged in cross-border drug smuggling, he said.

Meanwhile, the four-member SIT headed by Inspector General of Police (IGP) Patiala range MS Chhina is conducting a day-to-day investigation into this case and all the culprits involved in this crime will be arrested soon.

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CHANDIGARH: With Punjab Police having further intensified vigil and alertness against anti-social elements ahead of the festival season on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Amritsar Rural Police has busted an ISI-backed Narco-Terrorism module. Its main operative has been arrested after recovering arms and explosives from his possession, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Tuesday.

The module is being jointly operated by Canada-based Lakhbir Singh alias Landa, Pakistan-based Harvinder Singh Rinda and Italy-based Harpreet Singh alias Happy.

The arrested accused has been identified as Yograj Singh alias Yog, resident of Village Rajoke in Tarn Taran, besides, the Police have also identified five more accomplices, who were part of the module in carrying out illegal activities across Punjab and adjoining states.

The police have recovered a one RDX loaded Tiffin Box fabricated into an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) or Tiffin Bomb; two sophisticated AK-56 assault rifles along with two magazines and 30 live cartridges; one .30 bore pistol along with 6 live cartridges; and 2 KG Heroin from the accused.

DGP Gaurav Yadav said that the arrested accused Yograj is the main operative of this module and wanted by the state police and Central Enforcement Agencies in at least five criminal cases including the one wherein five AK-47 assault rifles were seized in Tarn Taran in September 2019.

He said that preliminary investigations have revealed that the cross-border operations of arms-explosives-drugs smuggling was mainly handled by Yograj on the directions of terrorists/gangsters Landa, Rinda and Happy and jailed smuggler Gurpavitar alias Sai of Lakhna, Tarn Taran. Yograj had been active in recovery and further delivery of consignments of Arms and Drugs at a large scale, he added.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Amritsar Rural Swapan Sharma said that the Police has made a major strike in exposing members of Landa-Rinda terror module. In the present module, the Police have managed to identify five operatives of the gang and manhunt has been launched to nab them, he added.

He said that further investigations are on, and more recoveries of arms and explosives are expected soon.

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CHANDIGARH: Fatehgarh Sahib Police has busted an inter-state pharmaceutical drug cartel with the arrest of a Haryana resident after recovering 2.51 lakh Pharma opioids from his possession.

Disclosing this, Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Anti-Gangster Task Force-cum-Ropar Range Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that the arrested accused has been identified as Ranjit Goswami, Batra Colony in Sonipat, Haryana. The Police have recovered 2,37,000 tablets of Alprazolam and 14,400 of the Pyeevon Spas capsules from his KIA car, in which he was smuggling drugs from Haryana, he added.

This is the third such inter-state pharmaceutical drug racket busted by the Fatehgarh Sahib district Police in less than three months. Earlier, Fatehgarh Sahib Police had recovered as many as 7 lakh tablets/capsules of Pharma opioids on July 14, 2022, while, 1.17 lakh tablets/capsules of Pharma opioids were recovered on September 4, 2022.

DIG Gurpreet Bhullar said that following a tip-off Police teams from CIA Sirhind and Police Station Khamano laid a special checking at Khamano and stopped a KIA car bearing registration number HR10AJ9791, which was being driven by accused Ranjit Goswami. During checking of the car, the police teams have recovered a huge quantity of pharma opioids, he said.

SSP Fatehgarh Sahib Dr Ravjot Grewal said that during preliminary investigations, it has come to light that the arrested accused is into the transport business in Delhi and Amritsar. The accused has confessed that he has been supplying pharma opioids in Punjab for the last few years and most of his customers are in Moga and Ludhiana, she said.

She said that the police have procured three days police remand of the accused person after producing him in the court and further investigations are on.

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Chandigarh: The Punjab Anti-Gang Task Force today arrested Neeraj Chaska, a member of the Davinder Bambiha gang, from Jammu. He was wanted in the murder cases of Gurlal Brar and Chandigarh bouncer Surjit. Gurlal was brother of gangster Goldy Brar.

Goldy Brar had claimed responsibility for the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala and said that the police released the killers of his brother.

DGP Gaurav Yadav said police have also recovered two foreign-made pistols, including .30 caliber and .32 caliber, along with 17 live cartridges from his possession.

DGP Yadav said that Neeraj Chaska along with his associates had also killed Surjit Bouncer at Sector 38, Chandigarh in March 2020, following which Davinder Bambiha group took the responsibility of the murder on Facebook claiming that Surjit Bouncer was killed to avenge the killing of bouncer Amit Sharma at Saketri.

Yadav said that further investigations and questioning of Neeraj alias Chaska will lead to the unraveling of more activities and plans of the Bambiha Gang.

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Chandigarh: There has been a new revelation in the case of leaking objectionable videos of students of Chandigarh University located in Mohali, Punjab. The counsel for the accused has admitted in the court that the accused student has made a video of another student’s washroom but it is not objectionable. The police have also feared the involvement of a fourth person in this case, who was blackmailing the accused student.

Earlier, the police had said that no video of any other girl had been made. Yesterday, three accused in this case were presented in the court, after which all three were sent on 7-day police remand.

A video of a girl student was leaked from a hostel of Chandigarh University in the private sector. After this incident, there was a huge protest in the campus for two days. At present, the students’ protests have calmed down, but the university has been announced to be closed till Saturday. Many students from nearby cities have gone to their respective homes.

The girl students allege that a student living in her hostel made private videos of 60 girl students and sent them to her boyfriend living in Shimla. He also alleges that some of those videos have been uploaded on social media and porn websites.

However, Mohali Police has denied this. Police say that the accused student had only recorded her video and sent it to her boyfriend. Police have said that no other video of any other girl has been found in the investigation. According to the police, the rumor spread caused panic among the students and protests took place in the university.

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Chandigarh: Punjab Police on Saturday conducted a massive state-level Cordon and Search Operations (CASO) in all the 28 Police districts of Punjab, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here.

“The idea behind conducting these operations is to instill a sense of safety and security among the common people and to effect the seizure of drugs,” he said.

The operation was conducted from 11am to 3pm simultaneously across the state and ADGP/IGP rank officers from Punjab Police Headquarters were deputed in each Police district to personally supervise the operation.

Giving out more details, the DGP said that the operation included all the CPs/SSPs of the concerned districts have mobilised maximum manpower for this operation, he said, adding that as many as 200 Gazetted Officers and 7500 NGOs/EPOs were deputed to conduct this operation.

He said that the CPs/SSPs had identified hotspots where drugs are prevalent or certain areas which have become shelter/safe haven for criminals and anti-social elements, to carry out this operation amid massive deployment of the police force. The operation was conducted at at least 227 identified hotspots.

DGP Gaurav Yadav said that during the CASO operations a thorough search of suspected houses was conducted under the supervision of ADGsP/IGsP and CPs/SSPs, while ensuring minimum inconvenience to the public. “All the police personnel were strictly instructed to deal with every resident in a friendly and polite manner during the course of this operation,” he added.

The DGP said that the Chief Minister Punjab Bhagwant Mann has mandated the Punjab Police to make Punjab a crime-free and drug-free state. He said that extensive drives against drugs and anti-social elements have been launched to combat the menace of drugs and root out gangsters from the border State. Such operations would continue till the menace of drugs and Gangsters wiped out from Punjab, he reiterated.

“My message to all such anti-social elements to voluntarily leave the state otherwise the Punjab Police will deal them with a heavy hand,” the DGP warned.

Meanwhile, these types of operations are part of the basic policing which includes keeping vigil in vulnerable spots and advance preparation to tackle any untoward situation. Such operations also boost confidence among common people, besides, helping in activating and mobilising the Police force.

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