Ludhiana: In the series of clashes between two rival groups in Old City in June, the police have arrested three more accused, including notorious criminal Vishal Gill.
Vishal was wanted in several cases, including those of murder bid, dacoity and under the Arms Act.
To date, police have arrested 19 accused, while 28 are at large.Besides Vishal, Billa Bori and Deepak Dhaliwal have been arrested.Additional deputy commissioner of police-1 Pragya Jain said, “Eighteen accused were arrested by Division 3 police and one by Tibba cops.
Baseball bats, iron rods and sharp-edged weapons were recovered from their possession.” The Delhi police had recently arrested two accused, Karan Walia and Raja Bajaj, who were also wanted by Ludhiana police in these cases.
Weapons and ammunition were recovered from them.The two groups’ kingpins, Puneet Bains and Shubham Mota, are lodged in Ludhiana Central Jail.
Their aides were involved in the clashes.
Days ago, they had fought and created nuisance in Old City areas by vandalising cars of residents.
The police had lodged four FIRs in these cases.Assistant commissioner of police (east) Devinder Chaudhary said, “The police had brought Rishav Banipal, a close aide of Shubham, on production warrant from Ludhiana Central Jail.
Rishav said the members of Puneet Bains gang had opened fire outside his house and brutally thrashed his friend Karan and so, he wanted to take a revenge.”Rishav confessed that he had sent his two aides, Raja and Karan, to Madhya Pradesh to get weapons.
The two were caught by Delhi police while they were on their way to Ludhiana.The city police will bring both the accused on production warrant from Delhi on June 28.
So far, the role of Shubham has not come up in these cases.
The police will bring Shubham on production warrant only if his role is found in further probe, said a cop.