Notorious criminal Kulbir Naruana turns into good Samaritan

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, March 18

Notorious criminal Kulbir Naruana has turned into a social activist. He organised a blood donation camp and mass marriage of 21 poor girls at his Naruana village. Earlier, another gangster Lakha Sidana had also turned into a social activist.

While talking to the media-persons, Kulbir Naruana said he had left behind the world of crime and now he wanted to be a good person. He is sad about his past and he also appealed to others to leave behind the world of crime and become a better human being”.

He also said last year as well, he had arranged for a mass marriage of 11 poor girls and this year, with the help of villagers, they conducted a mass marriage of 21 poor girls.

It is pertinent to mention that Kulbir Naruana is the one who was booked in around half a dozen cases, which include attempt to murder as well. In 2015, Naruana and his gang members opened fire at a police constable at the Cantonment police station in Bathinda.

Kulbir is also accused of freeing the convict Gurwinder Bindu from police custody by attacking the police personnel inside the Civil Hospital. He was also arrested for possessing a pistol without licence.

While being in the central jail, Naruana remained in the controversies as he and his accomplices uploaded their photo on Facebook from the jail. He was also a part of the gang war inside jail with the group members of the Gurpreet Sekhon group.

It was learnt that Naruana feared that a rival gang was planning to kill him in the jail premises. So he contacted his cousin Antarpreet to secure a weapon and after getting the weapon, he entered Gurdeep Singh’s cell and fired at him with the pistol. He is out on bail these days.

It is pertinent to mention that earlier Lakha Sidana had also left the crime world and turned a social activist. He had even contested Assembly election unsuccessfully from Rampura assembly segment on the PPP ticket. Later, he started his NGO and now is now steering a fight for his mother language Punjabi.