Gangster Baba brought to Chandigarh on production warrant

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 6

Gangster Dilpreet Singh, alias Baba, was today brought on a production warrant by the Chandigarh Police to probe his role in the Gurlal Brar murder case. Baba was produced in a court and sent to three-day police remand.

Baba was brought to the city amid high security and has been kept at the Industrial Area police station. The security at the police station has been beefed up. A team of the operation cell has also been stationed there.

Brar (26), a former state president of the Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU), was gunned down outside a mall by three motorcycle-borne miscreants. He was waiting for his friends in his SUV on the roadside.

During an investigation, it came to light that members of the Davinder Bambiha group were behind Brar’s murder. Baba’s role had also surfaced in the murder. A key member of the Bambiha group, Baba was lodged in a jail in Punjab

Baba came to the limelight in the city after he, along with his accomplices, shot dead a sarpanch in broad daylight outside a gurdwara in Sector 38 in 2017. Dilpreet was again in the news after he shot at Punjabi singer Parmish Verma in Mohali in 2018.

He was nabbed by a joint team of the Punjab and Chandigarh police in July 2018 outside the ISBT, Sector 43.

Brar was gunned down outside mall

Gurlal Brar (26), a former state president of the Student Organisation of Panjab University, was gunned down outside a mall by three motorcycle-borne miscreants. He was waiting for his friends in his SUV on the roadside.