Jimmy boasted about pal’s crimes on FB

Archit Watts 

Tribune News Service

Muktsar, May 26

Jimmy Sidhu, who died in an encounter with the police, and his close friend, Ranjit Singh alias Rana Sidhu, were kabaddi players.

While Jimmy did not have a criminal record in Muktsar district, Rana is facing 10 cases, including two in the district. The Kabarwala police registered a case against Rana for looting a marble-loaded truck last year. He was also booked by the Sadar Malout police for planning to commit a dacoity in 2015.

Going by Rana’s Facebook account, he is linked to gangster Jaipal Ferozepur’s gang. Jaipal is the prime accused in the murder of gangster-politician Jaswinder Rocky.

Rana’s FB friends include Jaipal and Jodha Kothaguru. Rana and Kothaguru had been together in jail.

Jimmy used to boast about Rana’s criminal activities on his own Facebook account. Jimmy had also uploaded on FB some pictures of Rana, in which the latter was seen brandishing weapons or in handcuffs while being produced in court.

Jimmy and Rana have adjoining houses, built on a similar pattern, on the Barkandi road in Muktsar town. 

Meanwhile, the Muktsar police today raided both houses and seized 17 cartons of liquor stocked illegally and Rs 17,500 from Rana’s house. “Nothing incriminating was recovered from Jimmy’s house,” said Gurpreet Singh Gill, Muktsar SSP.