Gangster Vicky Gounder cremated amid security

Tribune News Service

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Muktsar, January 28

Gangster Vicky Gounder, who was shot dead by Punjab Police in an encounter in Sriganganagar’s Pakki village on the Rajasthan-Punjab border on Friday evening, was cremated at his native village Sarawan Bodla in Lambi, Bathinda, amidst tight security on Sunday.

A large number of people bid adieu to 29-year-old Gounder, who was killed along with his accomplice Prema Lahoria.

His family members, however, claimed that he was killed in a fake encounter. “Both Lahoria and Vicky were planning to surrender. They had even made some WhatsApp calls to police officers a day before the killing,” they said.

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Gounder alias Harjinder Bhullar alias Jinder had fled the maximum-security Nabha jail on November 27, 2016. He was the prime accused in gangster Sukha Kahlwan’s killing.

“Wanted in more than 10 cases of murder, gangwar, jailbreak, extortion and smuggling, Gounder was under watch for his possible links with radicals as well as Pakistan’s ISI. He had recently obtained an automatic assault rifle from Pakistan through his handler Ramanjit Singh alias Romi (Hong Kong), also wanted by the Punjab Police. Romi may have had a role in the targeted killings in Ludhiana and Jalandhar in 2016-2017,” top police officials said.