SIM card used by Deepu found in Ambala jail

Chandigarh, June 11

The UT police claim to have recovered the SIM card used by Deepak, alias Deepu Banur, from Central Jail, Ambala. The same SIM was allegedly used by Deepu to communicate with Lawrence Bishnoi, who is lodged in a jail in Rajasthan.

The police said during interrogation, Deepu disclosed that he was using a mobile phone to communicate with Bishnoi and other criminals active in the region.

After taking permission, the UT police, along with the jail authorities, carried out a search of the barracks in which Deepu was lodged, which led to the recovery of the SIM card, used to make WhatsApp calls to Bishnoi, and other devices. “The mobile phone used by the accused was destroyed by him during his confinement in jail,” said a police official.

One of the gang members, Kulwinder Singh, alias Kala, who was arrested earlier, had disclosed that Deepu used to often call him from the jail, asking him to provide arms and ammunition to members of the Bishnoi gang to carry out crime in the region. “Deepu had kept arms at various hideouts in Punjab and Haryana,” said the official.

Kala had reportedly provided weapons to gangsters on the directions of Deepu in the past too. The police said Deepu had provided information about the hideouts of the remaining four shooters in the Sector 33 firing case, who were at large. — TNS