Middukhera murder case: Mohali police get gangster Bhupi Rana’s custody

Tribune News Service

Mohali, August 10

The Mohali police today got three-day remand of gangster Bhupi Rana from the Dera Bassi court in connection with the Vicky Middukhera murder case.

Rana, lodged in the Kurukshetra jail, was produced in the court this morning amid heavy police presence.

The police suspect that the Bhupi Rana group works in close association with the Davinder Bambiha group, which claimed the responsibility for Middukhera’s murder, and his questioning might lead to inputs in the case. Mohali DSP Gurpreet Singh Bains said, “Rana was produced in the court in connection with an old case pending in Dera Bassi. He was brought on a production warrant from where the court remanded him in police custody for three days. Investigation is still going on in the Vicky Middukhera case and nothing can be said about it.”

Sources said the police today questioned gangsters Sukhpreet Buddha and Aman Jaito in the case. Buddha was arrested from Romania on August 12, 2019, with the help of the CBI.

Meanwhile, the gang war that played out in the market place in Sector 71 in which the Youth Akali Dal leader was shot dead in a cold-blooded manner is being simultaneously fought on Facebook. Hours after the murder, the Davinder Bambiha group had claimed the responsibility of the murder over personal reasons.

A day later, the Lawrence Bishnoi group vowed to avenge Middukhera’s death. Now, gangster Sampat Nehra, an ally of Bishnoi group, threatened in a Facebook post that Middukhera’s death will be avenged with the death of four members of the rival gang. Middukhera had played an active role in supporting Bishnoi and Nehra in the student politics around 2010.