Moga: 4 arrested for running extortion racket on orders of Canada-based kingpin

Four of his aides arrested by the police are Prajwil Sethi of Moga, Deepak alias Monu of Ramganj, Gursharan Singh of Duneke village and Akashdeep Singh Dhaliwal alias Gagan of Bukkanwala road, Moga.

Police recovered one 315 bore country made pistol and one 32 bore pistol from the accused. An FIR was registered under the sections 25(6), 25(7), 25(b) of IPC at Moga City South police station for recovery of weapons.

Inspector Kikar Singh, Moga CIA incharge, said that a raid was conducted near Baba Mallan Shah dera on the basis of tip-off and four were arrested.

During questioning, the accused told police that they had recently made threat calls to two persons with intention to extort. Police said that the accused had called one Sunny, brother of Krishan Lal alias Babbu of old Moga area, who owns an eatery Sham Lal Dhaba (Dese da dhaba) on Kotkapura-Baghapurana bypass. The accused had demanded Rs 1 lakh from Sunny and were going to collect it when the police arrested them. An FIR in the case was registered on the statement of Babbu under sections 387 and 506 of IPC at Moga City South police station.

In another case, the accused also made a threat call to Maninder Singh of Gobindgarh Basti, Moga who works at a firm named Jai Maa Placement on Old Court road in Moga. Another FIR was registered on the statement of Maninder under sections 387 and 506 of IPC at Moga city-1 police station.

Police said that Davinderpal and Deepak had previous criminal records. Deepak was booked in a snatching case in May 2019 under sections 379B of IPC at Mog city. Davinderpal was booked under sections 25,54,59 of Arms Act in December last year in an FIR registered at Moga City South police station but by then he had already fled to Canada.