Residents near the Kolkata encounter site, on Wednesday
KOLKATA/LUDHIANA: Punjab’s most wanted gangster and drug smuggler Jaipal Singh Bhullar and his accomplice Jaspreet Singh aka Jassi, who were on the run after murdering two assistant sub-inspectors in Ludhiana district’s Jagraon grain market on May 15, were gunned down in an encounter in Kolkata’s New Town on Wednesday afternoon.
The two gangsters, hiding in a second-floor flat, were gunned down by West Bengal Police’s Special Task Force (STF) after they refused to surrender and opened fire at the cops in which one officer was severely injured.
Bhullar (39), who belonged to Ferozepur, had a reward of Rs10 lakh on his head, and Jassi (34) from Kharar in Mohali district, had Rs 5 lakh. Two of their accomplices, Baljinder Singh alias Babbi of Malla Khurd (Moga), and Darshan Singh of Sahauli (Ludhiana) were arrested from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh on May 28. The four gangsters, who had turned to drug smuggling from Pakist