Three gangsters arrested by Moga police

Kulwinder Sandhu
Tribune News Service
Moga, July 4

Moga police on Sunday unearthed a major conspiracy to create another extortion and targeted killing module of KTF led by Arshdeep Singh alias Arsh Dala, a foreign-based terrorist and main accused in the targeted killing module run by Sukha Lamme gang.

While giving this information, Harmanbir Singh Gill, Senior Superintendent of Police, said acting on a tipoff, Moga police arrested three accused, Yadvinder Singh alias Yadi (also a close friend of slain gangster Vicky Gounder), Rachpal Singh and Talwinder Singh alias Mintu from near Samalsar village.

The arrested gangsters revealed that they were in the act of extorting ransom money from a sweets shop owner at Talwandi Bhai, district Ferozepur.

A grey coloured Chevrolet Cruze Car bearing registration number DL3CAE4302, a 0.32 bore pistol along with live cartridges and 20 gm of heroin was also recovered from their possession.

He said that an FIR under sections 21/61/85 of the NDPS Act, 25/54/59 of the Arms Act has been registered against them at the Samalsar police station.

Initial investigations have revealed that Arsh had made threatening calls and texts to the sweet shop owner threatening to kill him in the event of not paying ransom money.

The arrested persons have earlier also been accused in various cases of attempt to murder and drugs.

It may be mentioned that a few days back, Moga police had busted a target killing module run by the Sukha Lamme gang and arrested three accused Lovepreet Singh alias Ravi, Ram Singh alias Sona and Kamaljeet Sharma alias Kamal in which Arshdeep Singh was the main conspirator.

“Since, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over the probe into the targeted killings, we have also shared these inputs with them,” said SSP Gill, adding that the process to extradite Arshdeep Dala and his co-conspirators was underway.