ASIs’ killing: Close aide of prime accused held

Ludhiana: The Punjab Police has arrested another close aide of prime accused drug smuggler Jaipal Bhullar in the killing of CIA assistant sub-inspectors (ASIs) Bhagwan Singh and Dalwinderjit Singh, who were gunned down in Jagraon Grain Market on May 15.
The arrested accused has been identified as Lucky Rajput, a resident of New Pratap Nagar in Ludhiana who had helped the killers in fleeing from the state. The police have also recovered a .32 bore country-made pistol, three live cartridges, two Pulsar motorcycles and one Fiat Punto car from his possession.
The arrest comes two days after the Punjab Police nabbed two of the main accused, Darshan Singh and Baljinder Singh Babbi, from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh.
In the intelligence-led operation, Ludhiana CP Rakesh Agrawal formed a police team that arrested Lucky from Khanpur Canal Bridge in Ludhiana. Agarwal said Lucky, who has a criminal past and was convicted in a murder case in 2008, came in contact with Darshan and Baljinder, who later introduced him to gangster-turned-drug smuggler Jaipal Bhullar. Lucky has disclosed that he, along with Jaipal, Darshan and Baljinder, had snatched an i10 car (PB10EU-0110) at gunpoint from Malerkotla road (under Dehlon police station in Ludhiana) in November 2020.
Whenever Jaipal would pass through Ludhiana, Lucky and Darshan would escort his vehicle in their Fiat Punto car to give advance information about police check-posts en route.
He said Lucky was also wanted in the kidnapping case of Mohali resident Pritpal Singh Bobby on December 12, 2020. They had thrashed him and demanded a ransom of Rs 1.5 crore, but after his condition deteriorated, Lucky, and his associates, including Jaipal, Baljinder, Darshan and Jaspreet Singh Jassi, left with his car after snatching Rs 86,000.
In another case, Lucky, Darshan, Gagandeep Singh, and Jaspreet had threatened prime witnesses in the Banur bank cash van robbery case—Sukhwant Singh of Batta village in Kharar, Shamsher Singh of Zara village in Shahabad, Haryana, and Jatinder Singh of Khanpura Gandua village. They did not want them to testify against Jaipal and his associates in court.