Gangsters wanted to ‘terrify’ Punjabi singer

Amit Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 16

The gangsters suspected to be involved in the attack on Punjabi singer and video director Parmish Verma have a history of targeting people with a modus operandi of shooting in their legs, perhaps with the intent to terrify them.

This is evident from the fact that the miscreants, while shooting a sarpanch in Sector 38 last year, had fired on his legs, though the sarpanch died later. Similarly Dilpreet Singh Dhahan’s accomplice Harvinder Singh, alias Rinda, also suspected to be involved in the attack on Parmish, had shot a Panjab University leader in his thighs.

In the fresh incident, the Punjabi singer was shot at in Mohali last week while returning to his flat, along with his friend, after performing at a club in Elante Mall. Parmish was hit on his leg.

Sources in the Mohali police said the possibility that the miscreants wanted to terrify the singer, could not be ruled out. The gangsters, Dilpreet Singh, Rinda, Harjinder Singh, alias Akash, and Manjit Singh, alias Bobby, had shot Satnam Singh, sarpanch of Khurda village in Garhdiwala, Hoshiarpur, outside a gurdwara in Sector 38, Chandigarh, in April 2017. Interestingly, they had fired on Satnam’s legs only.

A police officer, who had investigated the Satnam murder case, not wishing to be named, said the victim had died due to excessive bleeding. “The miscreants had fired on Satnam from point blank range, still they fired on his legs, which means they wanted to terrify him. Unfortunately, the injuries turned fatal,” the police officer added. Rinda, suspected of involvement in the attack on Parmish, had fired at SOI leader Manpreet Aulakh on the Panjab University (PU) campus in 2016. Aulakh was shot in his thigh only from a few meters. The modus operandi was the same in this case as well.