Overview
- Seven people were arrested in the Amritsar wedding killing of AAP sarpanch Jarmal Singh, including alleged shooters Sukhraj Singh alias Gunga and Karamjit Singh picked up in Raipur with Chhattisgarh Police and central agencies.
- Five others held in Punjab are accused of providing vehicles, shelter, weapons and a motorcycle to the gunmen, and investigators say they operated as a separate logistics module.
- In the December killing of kabaddi promoter Kunwar Digvijay ‘Rana Balachauria’ Singh, the Anti-Gangster Task Force arrested alleged shooters Karan Pathak and Tarandeep Singh, along with Akashdeep, in Howrah with assistance from Sikkim, Mumbai and West Bengal units.
- Police identified foreign-based gangster Prabh Dasuwal as the alleged mastermind of the sarpanch hit, citing old enmity and saying the shooters used forged Aadhaar cards while moving through multiple states.
- Officers say the arrests followed extensive CCTV and digital-trail analysis and interstate coordination, as opposition parties attack the state’s law and order and the High Court summons the DGP on January 15 over recurring public killings.