Ludhiana: Gangster Jaipal Bhullar and his aides had purchased a piece of land in Ludhiana’s Bhutta village on the ID proofs of Baljeet Singh of Amritsar, who was clueless about it.Bhullar and his associate Jassi Kharar were killed in an encounter in West Bengal on June 9.
Both were wanted in the killings of two ASIs in Jagraon.Kharar was a friend of Baljeet’s nephew Hardeep Singh, a budding artist.
On the pretext of sending Hardeep abroad, Kharar had got Baljeet’s documents and bank details from him.
The police found during investigation that Bhullar had purchased the village land to run an illicit liquor trade.
A labeling machine for liquor bottles too was recovered from the spot.
They planned to build a house there as their safe haven.Additional deputy commissioner of police (crime) Rupinder Kaur Bhatti said, “Kharar was a friend of Hardeep, who is an aspiring lyricist.
Hardeep wanted to go abroad and Kharar had promised to help him.
Therefore, Kharar asked Hardeep to provide ID proofs and bank details.
After the death of Hardeep’s father, he had been living with his father’s brother Baljeet Singh.
Hardeep provided Bajeet’s bank details and ID proofs to Kharar.
These documents were used in purchasing the land in Bhutta village.
Baljeet did not know about it and Hardeep was not aware of Kharar’s criminal background.”“In Khanna, when Bhullar had snatched a service weapon from a cop, his wallet had fallen down.
It had Bhullar’s fake ID card and some cheques of Baljeet’s account.
Bhullar knew police would reach Hardeep and so, he called him to Bhutta village on the pretext of overseeing the construction work.
There, Hardeep met Bhullar for the first time.
Hardeep was asked to live in Bhutta village so that police could not reach him and Bhullar and his aides could leave Punjab.”During interrogation, police did not find Hardeep and Baljeet’s intentional involvement in any case, said the official.
Aides brought on production warrantDCP (crime) SPS Dhindsa said the Ludhiana police have brought Bhullar’s aides Darshan Singh and Baljinder Singh Babbi on production warrant to investigate a Dehlon carjacking case of April.