Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 28
The Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) of Punjab Police has arrested three individuals of a gang concerned in procuring and offering passports on fake particulars to gangsters/criminals of Punjab and different states to facilitate their escape from the nation, mentioned Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav right here on Friday.
In a serious interstate #Immigration/#Travel brokers concerned in fake #passports for gangsters/criminals of #Punjab & different states, and serving to them to flee from legislation of the nation, #AGTF has efficiently arrested three individuals: Onkar Singh, Sukhjinder Singh & Prabhjot Singh (1/3) pic.twitter.com/tRmom8Tkom
— DGP Punjab Police (@DGPPunjabPolice) April 28, 2023
Those arrested have been recognized as Onkar Singh of Kaki Pind village in Jalandhar, Sukhjinder Singh alias Sharpy Ghumman of Karhali village in Patiala and Prabhjot Singh Baheri of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. Police groups have seized at the least 9 passports, moreover, recovering a number of photocopies of passports of absconding gangsters ready utilizing fake particulars.
DGP Gaurav Yadav mentioned that appearing on dependable human inputs concerning the involvement of inter-state journey brokers in preparing passports utilizing fake particulars to help gangsters/ criminals to flee from nation, AGTF groups headed by ADGP Promod Ban and assisted by AIG Sandeep Goel in an in a single day operation busted this gang with the arrest of its three members.
“Investigations reveal that this gang, having linkages in states together with Delhi, UP, Kolkata, Gujarat and Maharashtra, had facilitated numerous gangsters/criminals from Punjab and different states to flee from the nation on fake passports,” he mentioned.
The DGP mentioned the police groups have rounded-up 5 extra individuals linked with this gang and additional investigations are on to unearth their total community.
Divulging extra particulars, ADGP Promod Ban mentioned that accused Onkar, who runs an unlawful immigration agency in Jalandhar, was concerned in making passports for gangster/criminals utilizing fake particulars and duping harmless individuals on the pretext of sending them overseas.
He mentioned that in questioning, accused Onkar disclosed that he had procured passports on fake particulars for gangsters together with Varinder Pal Singh alias Veena Butter (Bambiha gang) and Jaswinder Singh alias Khattu (Dharminder Gugni gang concerned within the goal killings in Punjab), to help them flee the nation.
During the preliminary interrogation, the accused Prabhjot Singh has revealed that considered one of his conduits Charanjit Singh alias Bareilly (who has been arrested by Delhi Police), had made a passport utilizing fake particulars for gangster Deepak Boxer, who was lately deported from Mexico.
The third accused Sukhjinder Singh alias Sharpy Ghumman has disclosed to have procured a passport on fake particulars for Deepinder Singh alias Deepu of Ajnala, who has a prison background and is an affiliate of absconding gangster Harry Chatha.
A case has been registered below Sections 420, 468, 471, 473 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Section 25 of the Arms Act and Section 12 of the Passport Act in opposition to the accused.
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