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Mohali police file charge sheet against 6 in Vicky Middukhera murder case
Mohali police have charged the six accused under Sections 302 (murder), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (acts done in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and the Arms Act
Nearly a year after Youth Akali Dal leader Vikramjit Singh Middukhera was shot dead in Sector 71 on August 7, 2021, a special investigation team (SIT) on Monday filed the charge sheet against gangster Bhuppi Rana and five more accused, including the three shooters.
Apart from Rana, the charge sheet has been filed against the three shooters – Anil Kumar, alias Latth; Sajjan Singh, alias Bholu; Ajay Kumar, alias Sunny; and Amit Dagar and Kaushal Chaudhary, who are accused of conspiring the murder on the directions of Armenia-based gangster Gaurav Padial, alias Lucky Padial, who leads the Davinder Bambiha gang since the gangster’s death in a police encounter in 2016.
Police have charged the six accused under Sections 302 (murder), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (acts done in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and the Arms Act.
The charge sheet, however, does not name Padial and Shagunpreet Singh, the manager of a Punjabi singer, who allegedly arranged the stay of the shooters at a flat in Kharar after picking them up from Sohana a day before the murder.
Police said a supplementary charge sheet will be filed once they are arrested.
According to police, during their interrogation, Anil, Sajjan and Ajay had revealed that they were introduced to the fourth shooter by Shagunpreet and it was his car that was used to conduct a recce of Middukhera’s house after they spent a night at a flat arranged by him.
While police have named Shagunpreet in the FIR and also issued a lookout notice for him, he remains out of police’s grasp.
The murder case was cracked by the counter-intelligence unit of Delhi Police after the arrest of 12 gangsters aligned with the Davinder Bambiha gang, including the three shooters, following a month-long operation spanning seven states in the country.
On August 7, 2021, Middukhera was about to sit in his SUV after visiting the office of a property dealer in Sector 71 around 10.30 am, when two masked men chased him and fired multiple shots at him.
Middukhera had ran for his life for about 500 metres amid raining bullets and had even managed to scale the wall of the Sector 71 community centre for cover, but could not survive. He used to carry a licensed pistol in his vehicle, but did not get a chance to grab it.
