Tag: extortion and arms smuggling racket

  • Punjab police arrest 13 participants of Pinda gang

    By way of Specific Information Carrier

    CHANDIGARH: After a three-week-long operation, the Punjab police has busted an extortion and fingers smuggling racket. A complete of 13 gang participants together with skilled shooters had been arrested through the police. The participants had been affiliated to Palwinder Singh alias Pinda gang a detailed aide of gangster Vicky Gounder. Additionally, six different individuals had been arrested on fees of harboring and offering logistic improve.

    Senior Superintendent of Police of Jalandhar (Rural) Swapan Sharma mentioned {that a} shut aide of gangster Vicky Gounder, Palwinder Singh alias Pinda, whose position used to be additionally emerged within the Nabha Prison damage, is alleged to be the Kingpin of the crowd and used to be it sounds as if dealing with the crowd with the assistance of Paramjit alias Pamma, a local of Shahkot, Jalandhar and recently dwelling in Greece.

    All the ones arrested people are history-sheeters and feature been going through prison instances of heinous crimes together with homicide, try to homicide, extortion, and fingers smuggling.

    The police have additionally recovered 9 guns together with Seven .32 bore pistols, 3 .315 bore Pistols, one .315 bore gun, and one .12 bore gun, and two automobiles together with Toyota Innova and Mahindra XUV 500, but even so, foreign exchange amounting to Rs 8 lakhs from their ownership.

    Sharma mentioned that Paramjit alias Pamma used to finance the crowd and used to ship foreign exchange by way of Hawala to Amarjit alias Amar, who additional used to distribute a number of the gang participants to hold out more than a few prison actions. 

    He mentioned that the crowd is energetic for the final six years and has been interested by arranged extortion, armed freeway theft, land mafia and weapon smuggling from Madhya Pradesh.

    “With the arrest of this crew, the police have additionally been ready to crack 3 blind instances which come with homicide, extortion, and freeway armed theft happened in Jalandhar and Bathinda,” mentioned Sharma, whilst including that of general 19 arrested individuals, a minimum of 12 had been sought after through the police in 8 prison instances.