Gangster Dilpreet Baba shifted to Bathinda jail

Tribune News Service

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Bathinda, January 3

Gangster Dilpreet Baba was on Thursday shifted from Ropar Central Jail to the high-security Bathinda Central Jail. The step was taken due to security reasons. Baba was involved in a case of attack on Punjabi singer Parmish Verma and demanded money from Gippy Grewal. There are 25 cases registered against Baba in Punjab and most of the cases relate to murder, attempt to murder, extortion and the Arms Act.

Jail superintendent Manjit Singh said gangster Dilpreet Baba had been shifted to Bathinda jail from Ropar. He was kept in the high-security cell. Besides, there are around 35 gangsters, including Dilpreet, lodged in the Bathinda Central Jail.

It is pertinent to mention that Category-A gangster Dilpreet Singh Baba was nabbed in a joint operation by the Chandigarh and Punjab police from ISBT, Sector 43, Chandigarh, in July last year after a brief gun battle with the police. It is learnt that he had surrendered after a police bullet hit him in the thigh while he was trying to flee the spot after opening fire on the police team.

The gangster was wanted for the murderous assault on well-known Punjabi singer Parmish Verma last year from whom he had demanded a ransom of Rs 10 lakh. He had made an extortion call to popular singer-actor Gippy Grewal too. Also, he had shot dead a sarpanch in Chandigarh on April 9 in 2018.

Dilpreet, in a Facebook post, had claimed that he had attacked Verma. He had also shared a picture of him holding a pistol and another one of Verma with a cross drawn on it.

Even earlier, once Ropar resident Dilpreet had escaped from the Punjab Police custody in July 2016 with the help of his fellow gangsters while he was being shifted from the Ropar jail to the Hoshiarpur jail in a drugs case.

It is also worth mentioning that the Bathinda jail is one of the high-security jails in the state. Even the deployment of a CRPF company in November last year inside the Bathinda jail has further strengthened its security.

The state government had shifted the high-security Nabha jail to the newly constructed prison for women at the Bathinda jail last year.

High-security jails, also known as maximum-security jails, are the prisons where dreaded criminals are guarded with multi-layered security.

When the Nabha jailbreak took place, a cop who was deployed at the main gate of the prison with an LMG (light machine gun) could not open fire when the gangsters attacked.