TheOrganised Crime Control Unit (OCCU) of Punjab Police, in a joint operation withSAS Nagar Police, have arrested Gavi Singh @ Vijay @ Giani, a close aide ofGangster Jaipal, who had fled the State following police pressure and wasabsconding. He was involved funding of the gang by running a drug cartel,Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Dinkar Gupta said here on Tuesday.
Gavi,a resident of village Raaya Wala in Ferozepur district, was arrested from SaraiKila Kharsawa district in Jharkhand by a team of Punjab Police, alongwithJharkhand Police. The accused also shares close relations with jailed GangsterChandan alias Chandu of Ferozepur.
Thepolice have also recovered a Toyota Fortuner SUV, five mobile handsets andthree internet dongles, being used to handle drug and criminal networks fromhis possession.
Gavi,who had close links with Pakistan and Jammu & Kashmir drug smugglers, wasreceiving the drug supply and weapons from Pakistan via pipes beneath thefences or using water tubes in the river. He had also managed to give a slip tothe Jalandhar Rural Police in an 11 Kg heroin recovery case in February 2020.Gavi is a history-sheeter who is facing over 10 heinous criminal cases,including murder, dacoity, kidnapping, extortion, under the NDPS and Arms Act.
DGPDinkar Gupta, while divulging details, said that Gavi had started working asGym Instructor in Gold Gym after moving to Sarai Kila district in Jharkhand. Heshared that the Punjab Police chased Gavi to Jharkhand, and different policeteams, under the supervision of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG)OCCU Gurmeet Chauhan and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) SAS NagarSatinder Singh sent Police teams to Jharkhand and launched a combing operationin districts Jamshedpur and Sarai Kila, in association with the JharkhandPolice.
ThePunjab Police teams, headed by Inspector Hardeep Singh and Inspector PushwinderSingh, tracked the location of Gavi in Sarai Kila, where he was living in arented flat in Sri Nath Global village using fake ID and to dodge the police,he even switched his vehicle from i20 to Fortuner SUV, which was purchasedusing drug money, he said.
DGPDinkar Gupta said that on Monday evening, the Police teams arrested the accusedfrom his flat and the Punjab Police will obtain his transit remand afterproducing him in a Judicial Court in Jharkhand.
Hesaid that the Police are carrying out investigations in the case and the arrestof Gavi was expected to unravel the active involvement of gangsters incross-border drug smuggling into the State and country.
Meanwhile,Gavi was arrested in connection with the FIR no. 31 dated April 14, 2021,registered under sections 392 (Robbery), 395 (Dacoity), 384 (Extortion) of theIndian Penal Code (IPC), sections 21-22-29 of the NDPS Act and sections 25 ofthe Arms Act at Sadar Kurali Police Station.