AMRITSAR: Punjab police claims to have busted an extortion racket allegedly operated by gangster Harry Chattha with the arrest of its key associate identified as Navneet Singh alias Nav of Batala following a brief encounter that took place near village Balpurian in Batala, informed the Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Saturday.He informed that police had also arrested three more people identified as Gagandeep Singh alias Kaala of village Bal in Batala, Balraj Singh alias Baaz of village Amargarh Shahpur in Gurdaspur and Prem Kumar alias Ghulla of village Umarval allegedly for their direct involvement, while, other three arrested accused persons identified as Harpreet Singh alias Preet of Majitha Road Amritsar, Sukhraj Singh of village Lakhanpal in Gurdaspur and Darshan Singh alias Darshi of Sudhaar in Jagraon were brought on production warrant from different jails for providing logistic support. Yadav said that police teams had also recovered four pistols— including one 9mm Glock pistol and three country-made pistols— along with live cartridges, two motorcycles used in crime and one Hyundai I-20 car from their possession.He said that two cases of extortion were reported in Batala recently wherein members of the Harry Chatha gang had opened fire outside a shop of a travel agent on October 28 and a house of a local businessman on October 7, after victims failed to provide extortion money. He informed that following the reliable information, Batala police chased the I-20 car and the alleged accused Navneet Singh, driving the car, started firing at the police party, adding that the police teams fired back in self-defense, during which, the accused Navneet sustained a bullet injury in his leg. Accused Navneet has been admitted to the hospital for medical treatment, he added.Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Batala Ashwini Gotyal said that a case had been registered under sections 307, 353 and 186 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 25 of the Arms Act at Police Station Sadar Batala. Eom

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