Tejinder aka Gorkha Baba sent to four-day police remand
A day after the arrest of Tejinder Singh Gill alias Gorkha Baba, a gunman of fugitive pro-Khalistani chief and Waris Punjab De (WPD) leader Amritpal Singh, a neighborhood courtroom docket remanded the accused to police custody for thinking until March 28.
Gorkha Baba is already a convict in a case of liquor smuggling. The case became lodged towards him on the police station in Payal in 2011 beneathneath Sections 61/1/14 of the Excise Act. The courtroom docket had slapped a high-quality of ₹500 on him. He became additionally booked in a case in 2012 of attack with the aid of using Malaud police, however the FIR became cancelled in 2017 after he reached a compromise with the complainant.
Khanna senior superintendent of police (SSP) Amneet Kondal stated that numerous photographs and motion pictures of Tejinder Singh had long past viral on social networking webweb sites wherein he became visible with Amritpal Singh wearing guns, at the same time as he has no fingers licence.
“In the motion pictures observed from his phones, Tejinder Singh became visible loading guns and practicing hitting the objectives with the rifles. In some other video, contributors of the AKF had been visible carrying bulletproof jackets with the AKF emblem published on them. WhatsApp organization chats had been additionally observed at the phone,” the SSP stated.
“Tejinder became a drug addict who had joined a de-dependancy centre at Amritpal`s local village Jallupur Khera in Amritsar, some months ago. He became promoted as Amritpal`s gunman and given guns training,” the SSP delivered.
The SSP in addition delivered that Tejinder has are available touch with Amritpal Singh via Bikramjit Singh Khalsa, whom he had met at Kisan Andolan in Delhi. While scanning WhatsApp groups – AKF and Amritpal Tiger Force, the police observed that commands had been given to organization contributors to get new contributors inducted.
A resident of Mangewal village of Hathur in Khanna, Tejinder instructed the police that Amritpal Singh had raised a private military and assigned them belt numbers together with AKF 56, AKF 3, and AKF 47, consistent with the seniority. They had been at the payroll of Amritpal, who used to pay them salaries each month.
An FIR towards Tejinder has been registered beneathneath Sections 188 and 336 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 27, fifty four and fifty nine of the Arms Act at Maloud police station.
