Ludhiana: Six back-to-back gang wars in three days at three points have forced police to book dozens of accused and arrest nine, including three minors.
Those arrested are from the rival gangs of Shubham Arora and Puneet Bains.An elusive Vishal Gill, wanted for dacoity and attempt to murder, is again found involved.
Two of the five latest FIRs (first-information reports) against 15 people include Gill’s name.
On May 15, his band had tried to kill Karan Kalia of the rival gang.
On August 14, 2020, Gill and his men were charged with looting a gambling den of Rs 14.5 lakh.The series of clashes started on June 3 around 9.30pm, when the henchmen of jailed gangsters Shubham Arora and Puneet Bains came face to face at a wedding in Division Number 3.
An hour later, they created a ruckus at Hargobind Nagar, where they vandalised the parked vehicles of residents.
To avenge for that night, the Shubham gang fired upon Puneet Bains’ cousin Major Sandhu in Moti Nagar but he escaped unhurt.
So, on the night of June 4, the Puneet Bains gang thrashed Shubham’s friend Rajveer Singh brutally.
An hour later, the Shubham gang got even with Akash Soni of the Bains group.
Additional deputy commissioner of police-I Pragya Jain said: “I got a call from Hargobind Nagar that cars were being vandalised and a second clash had broken out between the gangs, so I gathered all the SHOs (station house officers) of zone 1.”She said: “Meanwhile, the residents also started protesting over their loss and some force was put there to pacify them, while the others teams scanned the CCTVs, visiting the scenes of crime, and raided the possible hideouts of these gangs.
On June 4, all cops were on duty from midnight till 5am, and they rounded up 20 suspects, of which nine we, later, arrested.”The ADCP said a manhunt for the other accused was on.
She said: “They will either be behind the bars or forced to leave the area.”