CHANDIGARH: Notorious Punjab gangster Vicky Gounder and accomplice Prem Lahoriya were killed in a shoot-out along the Punjab-Rajasthan border. They were reportedly killed by a police team chasing the former. Gounder was part of a five-prisoner group, including two terrorists, that escaped from the maximum-security Nabha Central Jail in Punjab. While Punjab Police rearrested five escapees in a couple of months, Gounder remained on the run.
A resident of Sarawan Bodla village, Vicky Gounder's real name was Harjinder Bhullar alias Jinder. He was suspected to be behind a fatal attack on another notorious gangster Sukha Kahlwan who was in police custody and on his way to a court hearing when he was attacked. It is told that Gounder and his accomplices were running their gangs and issuing threats and extorting money from people while lodged in prisons. Two days after killing him, authorities claim they have nabbed two more gangsters who were providing financial support and shelter to Gounder.
“Love and Amritpal Singh have been arrested near the gurdwara in Jhabal in Tarn Taran district,” said senior superintendent of police Darshan Singh Mann. Love is the brother of a dreaded criminal, Gurpreet Singh, who was linked with Gounder's gang. Amritpal, meanwhile, was a proclaimed offender. “Both of them were providing financial support and hideout to Gounder,” Mann said. Police are now focused on other dreaded criminals and gangsters in the state, including Harry Chattha, Gopi Ghanshyampuria, Gopi Kaura, and Jaipal, all who are accused in multiple cases of murder and extortion.
