Gangster Bhagwanpuria Moves HC claiming threat to life

Fearing a threat to life, gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria has approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking direction to the state to provide security to him in prison, police custody and during his movement.

He has prayed before the court to issue directions to the police to handcuff and shackle him during custody or transit from a police station to a court or any other place.

Claiming he faced a threat during confinement and chances of elimination were “extreme”, the gangster named his “self-proclaimed rivals” like Dilpreet Baba, Lawrence Bishnoi, Neeta Deol and Gurpreet Sekhon for it. He prayed to the court to direct the respondents — the state and the police — to ensure that he was kept in an area having CCTV coverage with video-recording facility.

In the petition, he said he had approached the court praying for protection as he apprehended elimination in a fake encounter or attack by rival gangsters. He said the state police were well within their rights to interrogate him while in Assam jail; however, exceptional haste was shown in his case, which pointed to a larger conspiracy, possibly aimed at targeting and eliminating him.