Two gangsters killed. The authorities stated that Jaipal Singh Bhullar and Jaspreet Singh, who wanted to kill and extortion, as well as drug trafficking, had rented an apartment in Sukhabristi Apartment in New Town.
An encounter wounded an STF official. In several cases of murder and extortion as well as drug smuggling, Jaipal Singh Bhullar and Jaspreet Singh were wanted to rent an apartment in the Sukhabristi apartment in New Town, officials said.
The STF has told the police to monitor the situation in close cooperation with the Punjab police Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta said earlier Wednesday that Bhullar and Singh had been present in the flat they tipped off their Bengal counterpart.
Rs 10 lakh and Rs 5 lakh were awarded the Punjab Polices for the arrest, respectively, of Jaipal and Jaspreet. “We have been informed that both hid here. The operation was planned and the building was surrounded.
They began to shoot, however. The Punjab police confirmed their identities. We fired into defence and were killed,” says the additional director General, West Bengal STF, Vineet Goyal.
Sources indicated that Bhullar was the son of a Punjab police officer from Ferozepur, and was at one time an alleged police officer. He was wanted in over 15 murder and robbery cases.
Singh was a Kharar native. Bhullar and Singh were also wanted in connection with the May 15 shooting on a police party at the Jagraon grain market in Punjab. The attack killed two Assistant Sub-Inspectors.
The Punjab DGP told a press conference in Chandigarh that they had launched “a massive operation, codenamed OP-Jack Manhunt” to find the two. “A large number of teams were dispatched to various states.”
Gupta stated that Bhullar’s accomplice, Bharat Kumar, was apprehended Wednesday with a pistol near the Shambhu border in the Rajpura area.
Kumar, who is accused of assisting Bhullar and Singh while they were on the run, revealed that the two were holed up.
He went on to say that they had flown a team to Kolkata and had also informed their Bengal counterparts.
“In the afternoon, a senior police officer from the Kolkata Police informed us that both had been killed,” Gupta said, thanking the Bengal STF for acting quickly on their information.
From the New Town flat, police claimed to have recovered Rs 7 lakh, five sophisticated weapons, and 89 rounds of live ammunition. Kartik Mohan Ghosh, a 50-year-old STF official, is being treated in a hospital for a bullet wound.
