3 miscreants injured, 1 held in two police encounters in Tarn Taran

Three operatives of infamous gangsters were injured and one was arrested in two separate encounters occurred in Jodh Singh Wala and Dadiala village falling under the Sadar Patti and Goindwal Sahib police stations, respectively, here on Friday evening.

The injured were identified as Lovepreet Singh, alias Labba, of Valtoha, Lovepreet Singh, alias Labba, of Zira and Jaswinder Singh, alias Jassa, of Goindwal Sahib. The arrested miscreant was Mehakdeep Singh of Thatha village.

The injured suffered bullet injuries on legs. They were admitted to the Civil Hospital for treatment under police watch.

Abhimanyu Rana, SSP, Tarn Taran, said both Lovepreet (of Valtoha) and Lovepreet (of Zira) along with Mahakdeep Singh were associates of foreign based notorious gangster Prabh Dasuwal and had been involved in a number of firing incidents outside local residents for extortion in the recent past.

Giving details, he said the police had put up a naka near the Jodh Singh Wala village drain when they spotted three bike-borne persons. The police teams signalled them to spot, but took a U-turn in order to escape.

“When police teams tried to catch them, they fired at the police party. In self-defence, the cops retaliated leading to injuring of two miscreants and Mehakdeep was arrested from the scene,” said Rana. The police recovered a .32 bore pistol and four rounds apart from two empty shells from there.

Similarly, a police team at the Dadiala village naka intercepted bike-borne Jaswinder Singh who fired at a police party in his desperate attempt to flee. In the counter firing, he suffered a bullet injury in the leg. The police recovered a .32 bore pistol and two live cartridges and two empty shells from the spot. As per a preliminary probe, he was an associate of a gangster, identified as German Malli. Malli was reorganising his gang and waiting for some target.

He said two separate FIRs are being registered against the suspects and further probe would be carried out to identify their backward and forward links.