Tribune News Service
Bathinda, July 19
Police said on Friday that they had arrested a notorious category “B” gangster from a village on the Rampura-Maur road.
Police said at a press briefing on Friday that they arrested Gurlal Singh alias Lalli Sidana from his in-laws’ village Lehra Dhurkot on Thursday evening. Bathinda Superintendent of Police Nanak Singh said: “CIA Staff 2 Incharge SI Tarjinder Singh got a secret tip off that gangster Lalli Sidana is coming to his in-laws village, acting on which CIA team laid a trap and he was arrested”.
They also found a 9mm country-made pistol along with 12 live rounds, one 32-bore revolver along with 32 live rounds, one country-made 32 bore pistol with 6 live rounds, one 12 bore gun with 22 live rounds, 16 live rounds of 315 bore and 22 live rounds of 455 rounds.
Gurlal Singh faces criminal charges in six cases, and has been declared a proclaimed offender in three of them. He also has a bailable warrant against him, which a court issued when he did not turn up for hearing.