Patiala, April 10: The Punjab Police’s Organised Crime Control Unit (OCCU) arrested Sumit Kumar Kusawa, a resident of Cyprus, from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Sunday. He was allegedly behind the threats issued to the state police on social media in the past two years.Police officials said Sumit, who hails from Ludhiana, was settled in Cyprus for the past over a year.
“He used to threaten industrialists and others through social media. Subsequently, the gangsters would extort money from them,” they added.
Two days after gangsters Vicky Gounder and Prema Lahoriya were killed in a police encounter in January, Sumit had threatened the police on Facebook.
The threat was posted on an FB page in the name of “Vicky Gounder Sarawan Bodla”. The account operator wrote: “Eh sada vaada aa saade Vicky, Preme te Budha veer nal. Jo ehna ne kita bahut maada kita. Asi badla bahut jaldi lawange (we will avenge the killings).
”Sources said Sumit had established links with gangsters from several states over the years. “His role is under investigation for the threats issued to two SSP-rank officers as well,” they added.
Earlier, gangsters had threatened then Bathinda SSP Swapan Sharma and his batchmate, Mohali SSP Kuldeep Chahal, after the deaths of Shera Khubban and Devinder Bambiha in two encounters.
A senior officer confirmed to The Tribune that Sumit had met Gounder and other gangsters during his visits to India. “A Red-Corner notice was issued against him following our request. Once he landed in Delhi, he was nabbed,” the officer said.
The police on Monday brought Sumit to Patiala, where he had been named in an FIR dated October 23, 2017, under Sections 392, 382, 384, 506, 148 and 149 of the IPC and various sections of the NDPS Act and the Arms Act.
Source Tribune India
