Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 9
Punjab’s most-wanted drug smuggler and A-category gangster Jaipal Singh Bhullar, along with Jaspreet Singh (alias Jassi), who had rewards of Rs 10 lakh
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
On Wednesday, two gangsters involved in killing two policemen recently in Ludhiana were gunned down by a Kolkata police team in a shootout in the metropolis
One of the two gangsters shot dead in New Town on Wednesday was the son of a retired assistant sub-inspector of Punjab police.
Jaipal Singh Bhullar, police said, had been a champion hammer thrower in college before becoming a dreaded criminal wanted in several states.
Bhullar had more than 25 criminal cases pending against him, including robbery, murder, extortion and arms and drugs smuggling. He had allegedly entered the crime world with the kidnapping of a child in Punjab, the police said.
He and his associates Jaspreet Singh, alias Jassi Kharar, Baljinder Singh and Darshan Singh were wanted in the killing of two assistant sub-inspectors of police, Bhagwan Singh and Dalwinderjit Singh, at a grain market in Punjab’s Jagraon on May 15.
Representative image.
LUDHIANA: Most wanted drug smuggler and gangster , Jaipal Singh Bhullar of Ferozepur and Jaspreet Singh Jassi of Kharar, in SAS Nagar, who had rewards of 10 Lakh and 5 Lakh rupees on their heads have been neutralized by the STF West Bengal Police on Wednesday afternoon, after they fired on the STF Police party, when they raided their apartment.
Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Dinkar Gupta, while addressing press conference, said that both the gangsters-turned- drug smugglers were wanted in the killing of two ASIs Bhagwan Singh and Dalwinderjit Singh of Jagraon Police at grain market, Jagraon on May 15, 2021 evening.