Cops bust interstate gang of drug peddlers, criminals

The police today claimed to have busted an interstate nexus of gangsters, drug peddlers and arms suppliers in the tricity with the arrest of five criminals. They have recovered 190 gm heroin, three illegal pistols with two rounds and Rs 4.9 lakh drug money from them in Chandigarh, Rajasthan and Punjab.

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The accused, identified as Narinder Kumar of Mauli Jagran, Sector 38-West residents Deepak Thapa and Rajinder Singh, Rahul Motouriya of Matour and Dhanas resident Dharminder Singh, have been arrested.

The police said the accused were proclaimed offenders or wanted in various cases of murder, Arms Act and NDPS Act registered in Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana.

Three of them are associated with Lawrence Bishnoi, Raju Basodi and Vakant Garg gangs and were in touch with them. Motouriya is reportedly linked to Vakant Garg, who was involved in the BSP leader murder in Ambala in January.

On March 7, a team of Operation Cell put up a naka at the motor market in Sector 48 and nabbed Narinder Kumar, alias Aman, with 50 gm heroin. Narinder disclosed that he had purchased the contraband from Deepak Thapa, who was subsequently arrested with Rs 4.4 lakh drug money, a pistol and a round. Both were involved in drug peddling and had criminal past, said the police.

Dharmender was arrested with a countrymade pistol, which he had bought from Bareilly in UP for perpetrating some crime. The police had been on his trail for the past about four months.

On the disclosures made by Dharmender, his associate Motouriya was arrested from Sector 56 with a countrymade pistol and a cartridge. The police said he was involved in the murder of Kuldeep, alias Lovekush, at Sarangpur and declared a proclaimed offender in the murder case. He told the police that he had supplied two illegal weapons to gangster Vakant Garg. Five days later, Vakant and his associates murdered BSP leader Harbilas Rajjumajra at Ambala. The Haryana Police had declared Rs 5 lakh reward on Vakant.