Chandigarh, December 15: Two gangsters were shot dead and three were arrested after an encounter with Punjab Police at Gulabgarh village near Bathinda on Friday morning.
The five gangsters, suspected to be accomplices of Punjab’s most wanted gangster Vicky Gounder, were travelling in a white Scorpio (PB 02 CX 8395) when they decided to split. Three of them stole a Fortuner (PB 13 AR 2222) at gunpoint near Bhucho, 10 km from Bathinda, at 11am.
Bathinda zone inspector general MS Chhina said the gangsters opened fire at the police team chasing them at Gulabgarh on the Bathinda-Talwandi Sabo road. Three gangsters were injured in the retaliatory fire. Two of them, Manpreet Manna and Pardeep, succumbed to their injuries at the Bathinda Civil Hospital, while their accomplice, Amritpal, is undergoing treatment.
Police recovered a 9-mm pistol, .32-bore pistol and a .315-bore pistol from the gangsters.
The arrested gangsters were identified as Bhinda and Ginda.
The encounter comes two days after the arrest of gangster Darshan Singh Bhoora from a farmhouse at Khizrabad in Chhachhroli town of Yamunanagar district.
Yamunanagar SP Rajesh Kalia said the police had got a tip-off of Gounder’s presence at the farmhouse.
Gounder is the kingpin of the Nabha jailbreak in Punjab last year.
Source Hindustan Times
