Crime syndicate busted, two arrested with four pistols

The police claimed to have busted an organised crime syndicate by arresting two alleged shooters of Canada-based gangster-turned-terrorist Satinderjit Singh, aka Goldy Brar, here on Wednesday night. The police recovered four pistols from their possession.

The arrested suspects were identified as Harshdeep Singh and Gursharanpreet Singh, both residents of Dhilwan Khurd village in Faridkot district. They were arrested from the Jahajgarh area here yesterday evening.

The duo had shot at Gurjit Singh, alias Bhura, a bouncer and security firm owner in Dhanas in the Chandigarh area on Monday night on directions of Brar. They intended to kill him. They had fired at least eight gunshots at Bhura’s SUV.

The police got a tip-off that the suspects, along with some other accomplices, had formed a gang after procuring or smuggling weapons from other states and selling them to criminal elements. The duo was in a firecracker market in the Jahajgarh area and planning some crime when they were arrested. —Ranjit Singh Dhillon, Police Commissioner, Amritsar

Ranjit Singh Dhillon, Police Commissioner (CP), Amritsar, said the suspects did a recce of a man in Mohali from whom Brar was demanding extortion. They were in contact with Brar through social media applications.

“The police got a tip-off that the suspects, along with some other accomplices, had formed a gang after procuring or smuggling weapons from other states and selling them to criminal elements. They were in a firecracker market in the Jahajgarh area and planning some crime,” the CP said. Following the information, teams of the CIA-1, CIA-2, Division A, Division B and the Cantonment police stations raided the area and nabbed the duo, the CP added.

Gursharanpreet had a murder and an Arms Act case registered against him in Faridkot and had come out on bail in October last year.

A case under Section 111 (3) of the BNS and Section 25 (7) of the Arms act was registered against the two suspects.