Inter-state gang of gunrunners busted

The SSP said that the gang members were arrested from a ‘dhaba’ near Kartarpur town,25 kms from here,late on Thursday.

The arrested include the kingpin of the gang,Jangli Shah who hails from Bihar,Jarnail Singh (Phagwara),Gurchetan Singh (Fatehgarh Churian in Gurdaspur) and Manjit Singh (Gurunanakpura Nakodar).

The SSP said that Jangli Shah used to get illegally manufactured pistols from Bihar at very cheap rates and then sell them to criminal gangs operating in Punjab for Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh a piece. Shah was also wanted in a loot case in Ludhiana.

The SSP said that during preliminary interrogation,Shah revealed that he had supplied more than 80 weapons to various gangs in Punjab in past several months. Jalandhar police would contact their counterparts in Bihar to seek details and arrest the suppliers of the illegal arms.

On held for murder

HOSHIARPUR: The police on Friday booked Harbhajan Rana of Vadiala village for murdering his wife’s brother late on Thursday at Nassran village near Hoshiarpur. As per a complaint filed by the deceased’s relatives,Harbhajan got married to Manjit Kaur of Nassran village four years back. Manjit soon returned to her parent’s place after she found that Harbhajan,a driver,was a drug addict. To take revenge,Harbhajan and his brother,Sukha,reached his in-laws house and attacked Manjit. The duo killed her brother Sarabjit Kala (35) when he tried to rescue Manjit.

Son kills father,
sets body on fire

JALANDHAR: In a shocking incident,a 30-year-old man killed his father and then burned his body inside the house reducing the home to ashes at Bilga village. Police have recovered the charred body of Kewal Singh (70). Bilga police station SHO Narinder Singh said that the accused,Buta Singh,had enstranged relations with his wife who he used to beat in a drunken stupor. Kewal Singh (in a written will), gave all his property to his daughter-in-law. “The son wanted to take revenge on his father over the issue and attacked him with a farm implement and then set him on fire inside the house,” said the SHO.