– Gangster Gavi revealed that he had managed to acquire a forged Passport and was planning to settle in Portugal, says DGP Punjab
– Pakistan based smugglers using gangsters to push in heroin and weapons into India
CHANDIGARH, May 8:
Quickly acting on the disclosures of Gangster-cum-Drug Smuggler Gavi during his interrogation, the Punjab Police on Saturday, have managed to bust the entire part of his module active in Punjab with the arrest of his five accomplices. A close aide of wanted gangster Jaipal, Gavi Singh @ Vijay @ Giani was arrested from Sarai Kila Kharsawa district in Jharkhand on April 26, 2021 during a joint operation by the Organised Crime Control Unit (OCCU) of Punjab Police and SAS Nagar Police.
The arrested persons have been identified as Karanbir Singh, a resident of village Akbarpura, Harmanjit Singh of village Johla, Gurjaspreet Singh of village Bathal Bhai Ke and Rawinder Iqbal Singh of Hanslawala, all villages falling in district Tarn Taran while Samuel alias Sam belongs to Ferozepur. All the accused persons have been facing several criminal cases across different districts of Punjab.
Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Dinkar Gupta said that the Police have recovered 1.25 kg heroin from Gavi’s rented flat located at Urban Homes-2 in Kharar besides seizing three Pistols including one .30 calibre Chinese Pistol and two .32 calibre Pistols and 23 live cartridges from his hideouts. Three vehicles, including Toyota Fortuner, Mahindra Scorpio and Hyundai Verma, which were being used for drug smuggling have also been recovered, he added.
He said that Samuel, who was staying with Gavi in Jamshedpur, had managed to fly to Delhi prior to Gavi’s arrest. Samuel, a close aide of Gavi, is learnt to have handled the distribution of heroin smuggled from Pakistan, he added.
The DGP said that, in the ongoing investigations, Gavi had revealed that he had smuggled over 500 kgs of heroin, alongwith weapons from Pakistan and supplied into Punjab, Delhi and Jammu & Kashmir, over the last two and half years.
Gavi has shared that there was a thriving smuggling infrastructure on the Indo-Pak border many Pakistan based smugglers were actively involved in smuggling and induction of weapons and drugs into India. Gavi is also learnt to have made a large number of financial transactions with individuals and entities based in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan through the havala route as well as through import/export companies based in New Delhi, which would require a deeper probe.
“Gavi also admitted having acquired a forged Indian Passport from a travel agent on fake particulars and was planning to settle in Portugal,” said DGP Dinkar Gupta.
The DGP said that bank accounts and properties of Gavi have been identified and shared with concerned agencies for further action. Other associates of Gangster Gavi have also been identified and Punjab Police has launched a manhunt to nab all the accused persons in this case, he added.
