Gangsters’ aide lands in police net

The police arrested a key operative of foreign-based gangsters and recovered a .32 calibre pistol along with five live cartridges. The suspect has been identified as Ajay of Mauli Jagran. His arrest follows the April 18 operation on the Janetpur link road in Dera Bassi wherein a gangster module of four members was busted with two foreign-made pistols.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect was acting on the directions of his foreign-based handlers for the past one year and had been assigned multiple targets across the Tricity.

During investigation based on forward and backward linkages following the arrest of the four persons on April 18, it was found that Ajay had delivered the weapons to them and also provided them logistic support.

Acting on this information, joint teams of the police and the Anti-Gangster Task Force, under the supervision of SP (Rural) Manpreet Singh and Dera Bassi SP Bikramjit Singh Brar and led by Inspector Sumit Mor, SHO, Dera Bassi police station, traced Ajay and arrested him from under the Ghaggar bridge at Mubarikpur on Thursday. The suspect broke his leg in a bid to flee police custody.