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The DGP and other officials look at seized weapons in Ludhiana.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/sharpshooter-shera-who-killed-rss-gagneja-held/495931.html
Nikhil Bhardwaj
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, November 10
The Punjab Police have arrested Hardeep Singh, alias Shera, a sharpshooter allegedly behind at least seven high-profile killings in the state since 2016.
This is the fifth arrest connected to the Pakistan ISI terror module busted a few days ago. The module is believed to be behind the targeted killings of several Hindu leaders, including those of the RSS and Shiv Sena, besides a pastor.
While five killings took place between April 2016 and February 2017, two happened in July and October.
Addressing the media, DGP Suresh Arora, accompanied by DGP-Intelligence Dinkar Gupta, said the police had traced the suspects’ handlers, who were part of a larger ISI conspiracy stretching to the UK, Italy and Canada. The role of the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) was also being investigated. The DGP said they had vital clues about the identities of the handlers.
Hardeep (21), a resident of Majri Kihnewali village, was arrested from a gymnasium in Fatehgarh Sahib this morning. He had fled to Italy on August 12, 2016, after killing RSS state vice-president Brig Jagdish Gagneja (retd) on August 6, making it difficult to connect him to the murders, the DGP said.
Baghapurana SHO Jangjeet Singh Bajwa said Hardeep tried to escape but was overpowered around 5.30 am. Several weapons, including a .9 mm pistol, .30 pistol, .32 pistol, .315 single-shot pistol, a Swiss-made air pistol and 60 cartridges, were recovered.
Sources said Hardeep bought the air pistol in Italy for training. The motorcycle used in Brig Gagneja’s killing was recovered from the Sirhind canal today.
Hardeep reportedly worked with Ramandeep Singh, alias Canadian, alias Billa, alias Chooti Bhain, of Chuharwal in Ludhiana. The two met at Gurdwara Dukh Niwaran Sahib in Ludhiana.
“The accused had picked RSS leaders to cause communal disharmony in Punjab. The accused had gone to Jalandhar thrice before finally shooting Brig Gagneja. They always wore masks to hide their identity from CCTV cameras and destroyed clothes after each crime,” said DGP Arora.
Both Hardeep and Ramandeep were reportedly contacted on Facebook by their ISI handlers, who used the social media to pick and radicalise youth, the DGP said.
“The two worked in close coordination despite having little information about one another. They kept contact through a mobile app — Signal — and were told to pick soft targets in the RSS. In Brig Gagneja and pastor cases, the targets were given by agencies outside of Punjab, while the rest were selected by the accused,” the DGP said.
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http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/cpi-no-need-to-arm-police-with-pcoca/495849.html
National executive member of the CPI Dr Joginder Dayal said today that there was no need of the Punjab Control of Organised Crime Act (PCOCA) and the police force was armed with enough laws to curb crime.
While addressing a press conference here, Dayal said, “All what is required to be done in Punjab is depoliticisation of the police and changing the entire culture. How can PCOCA help the Punjab Police in controlling crime when a similar law enacted by Maharashtra since 1999 is not coming handy? As per a report, there were as many as 2.95 lakh cases of crime registered in Maharashtra in 2015.”
He said, “We are against the target killing or any other innocent killing. But we apprehend that PCOCA, if implemented, will be misused more against political opponents than the real criminals”.
Announcing to hold a rally in Ludhiana on November 27, the CPI leader said, “We intend to revive our activities after recent falls. We want to mobilise downtrodden, students, youth, peasants and agriculture workers. We will be demanding reservation on economic basis rather than caste factor. We want reservation for the creamy layer to go. We are also for having reservation in private sector.”
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Prohibited items are being thrown inside the state’s prisons about five times a month. Tribune File photo
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/-porous-prisons-hc-summons-joint-secy/496350.html
Saurabh Malik
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 11
Jail authorities in Punjab have found that prohibited items were thrown inside over the wall five times a month, on an average. This revelation, underlining security concerns, has prompted Justice Rajan Gupta of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to direct the state to specify whether a time frame had been fixed for shifting Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana and Ferozepur jails out of residential areas.
Justice Gupta also directed the state to depute an officer not below the Joint Secretary’s rank to remain present in the court on the next date of hearing.
Expressing concern over the use of mobile phones in prisons, state DGP Suresh Arora had recently raised the issue with the government, even as mobile jammers were installed in Nabha, Sangrur and Patiala jails.
As a petition filed by Rajesh Kumar and others through counsel Tanu Bedi came up for hearing, the Bench was told that the Gurdaspur Central Jail was situated in the middle of the city. Five years ago, the outer area comprising agricultural land was acquired by Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) on the state government’s direction for acting as a buffer between the jail and the city area.
After acquisition, PUDA developed a residential colony surrounding the jail from three sides. The colony roads were now touching the prison’s outer security wall from three directions.
Lakhminder Singh Jakhar, DIG (Prisons), said this gave easy access to miscreants to throw prohibited items inside. The matter was taken up by his office with the Additional Chief Secretary, Home and Jails, vide a letter dated September 29.
In his status report, Jakhar said at least 44 instances of articles being thrown inside over the outer wall had come to light during the first nine months of this year.
Jakhar added that the Jail Department had taken action against miscreants and staff caught smuggling and throwing prohibited items inside prisons. He said 12 jail employees had been dismissed in the past three years and 25 were facing departmental inquiries for alleged involvement in supplying forbidden articles. “Every such incidence of supplying or recovering prohibited articles from inmates has been reported to the police,” he concluded.