Five-day remand for sister duo

Tribune News Service

Mohali, July 10

The two sisters, Harpreet Kaur (43) and Rupinder Kaur, alias Ruby (38), who have been arrested on disclosures made by notorious gangster Dilpreet Singh Baba to Punjab State Operation Cell sleuths, were remanded in five-day police custody by a Mohali court on Tuesday evening.

The police have recovered a .12-bore pump action gun, a .30-bore pistol along with 40 live cartridges, 1 kg of heroin, a digital weighing machine, aphrodisiac tablets, cough syrups and packets of condoms from the houses of the women.

A case under Sections 212 and 216 of the IPC along with sections of the NDPS Act and the Arms Act has been registered against the sister duo at the Punjab State Special Operation Cell (SSOC) police station at Phase 1 here in this connection.

Talking to The Tribune, AIG Varinder Paul Singh, SSOC, said the remand had been sought to extract information of their other accomplices, the source of the drugs and the arms and their involvement in any criminal activities. “Most of the recovery has been made from the elder sister Harpreet Kaur’s house at Nawanshahr. Both women were well aware of Baba’s criminal activities,” said the AIG.

The police said the gangster was having illicit relations with both sisters and later he had also become the cause of a conflict between them.

Yesterday, he was coming from Ruby’s house at Sector 38 when he was nabbed in a joint operation.

Harpreet, who has studied till Class XII, runs a boutique in Nawanshahr while her younger sister Ruby, a graduate, is into computer networking. “Both sisters have two children each. Harpreet Kaur’s husband had died in 2009 following a cardiac arrest while Ruby has been living separately from her husband”, said the police.  

Mohali police to seek production warrants 

The Mohali police are all set to bring Dilpreet Singh Baba on production warrants in connection with a case of firing at Punjabi singer Parmish Verma. According to the police, after being nabbed, Baba has confessed that he had opened fire on the singer around 12.30 am on the intervening night of April 13 and 14 at Sector 74 in Mohali when the victims were on their way to Verma’s home at Sector 91. The singer and his friend Kulwant Singh Chahal had sustained bullet injuries. 

Mohali SSP Kuldeep Singh Chahal said soon after the completion of the legal proceedings against Baba in Chandigarh, they would seek his production warrants in the case in question.