Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh/Jalandhar, November 7-
Jalandhar Commissionerate Police amidst the ongoing fight against organised crime, two dreaded gangsters of Kaushal-Bambiha gang sustained critical injuries while unsuccessfully attempting to escape from the police custody at the outskirts of Jalandhar Cantonment and recovered two pistols along with five live cartridges from their possession, said DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Thursday.
Both the gangsters identified as Rajeshwar Kumar and Deepak Vaid alias Babu were arrested by the Jalandhar Commissionerate Police on Tuesday, after their name cropped up during follow-up investigations in the Arms Act case regitered at Police Station Bhargo Camp on October 17, 2024. As per the information, Police teams had arrested four members of this Kaushal-Bambiha module and recovered four weapons from their possession. With the arrest of these two gangsters, the total arrests in this case reaches six.
DGP said that both the accused persons were involved in multiple heinous crimes and were also conspiring major crimes in districts including Hoshiarpur, SBS Nagar, Kapurthala and other districts. The accused persons were also providing logistical assistance to other gang members and supplying weapons to different gangs in Punjab and Haryana, he said.