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  • Punjab police arrest 13 participants of Pinda gang

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    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.

  • Extra drones coming from Pakistan into Punjab this yr 

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    CHANDIGARH:  The collection of drones being sighted in Punjab, coming from Pakistan to ship narcotics, guns, explosives and ammunition, has observed an important upward thrust this yr. From January until date, 45 drones were sighted, of which 10 have been shot down, as in comparison to 67 drones noticed the entire of closing yr. 

    The Border Safety Drive (BSF) will quickly instal anti-drone machine at the Indo-Pakistan border, as trials of the similar were effectively finished. In step with resources, the regulate soldiers of the BSF sighted those drones coming from Pakistan.

    In 10 cases, they have been shot down and medicine, basically heroin, have been recovered. The drone task will increase in summer season, after the paddy crop is minimize, however the upward thrust has been extra this yr. As many as 133 drones coming from around the border have been sighted via the BSF in 2020 and 2021, out of which 67 drones have been sighted in 2021.

    “ As they fly top, it’s tricky to identify them every now and then. However every time any sound is heard or an object is sighted within the sky, the BSF shoots it down. Trials for putting in anti-drone machine at the Indo-Pak border were finished now, and its procurement will likely be completed via the involved government. The generation is costly, and prices round Rs 1 crore to hide 6km. The whole duration of Punjab’s border with Pakistan is 553 km,’’ a senior authentic stated.

    Drones being utilized by terrorists
    Extremely positioned resources stated that the 4 Khalistani terrorists, who have been arrested via the Haryana Police a couple of days again, had the consignment dropped at them by the use of drones. Additionally, the Russia-made RPG used within the Mohali assault was once provided in two portions thru a drone previous this yr from Pakistan, they added.