Gang Wars, an Underneath-Reported Universe in Jammu Kashmir

   

by Faiqa Masoodi

SRINAGAR: On Saturday, March 9, the Mohali Police revealed that the broad daylight homicide of frontline Jammu gangster, Rajesh Dogra, 41, was the result of the gang wars between the slain-led Billu Gang and Bakra Gang. Dogra, often called Mohan Cheer was killed in entrance of a mall in Mohali on March 4.

Mohali Police have arrested 5 shooters who’re believed to have been concerned within the homicide. These embrace Bakra gang chief Anil Singh, alias Billa of Samba, an erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir Police official who was dismissed from the police drive.

The opposite 4 embrace Sham Lal of Udhampur, additionally a cop however having his providers suspended; Harpreet Singh, alias Preet, of Meerut (UP); Satveer Singh, of Pilibhit (UP), and Sandeep Singh, alias Soni, of Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab). Police are attempting to find different shooters together with Rimpy and Sandeep, alias Raja, each from Jammu; and Manjit Singh, a local of Jind, who resides in Zirakpur, who’re nonetheless on the run.

Inside 4 after the homicide, the police recovered all the posh automobiles that had been concerned within the planning and execution of the homicide.

The preliminary investigations counsel that Dogra was on his solution to pay respects at Ayodhya and was accompanied by Sandeep Singh Raja. The suspicion is that Raja, his erstwhile aide, had switched sides and knowledgeable the shooters which led to the homicide.

“The deceased, alongside along with his two aides, had checked in a Kharar lodge on his solution to Ayodhya. Rajan, earlier than assembly Dogra on March 4 afternoon, made him keep put for 2 days, giving the assailants the time to succeed in right here and execute the homicide,” the police officer who briefed the media in Mohala was quoted as saying.
“After the killing, Rajan fled together with the assailants and continues to be on the run. The assailants instantly deserted their three automobiles within the Mohali space and fled to Shahgarh in Pilibhit, from the place they had been nabbed.”

Police mentioned Sandeep had taken Rs 35 lakh for providing particulars of Dogra to his rivals.

Previous Rivalries

Billu and Bakra gangs function from Jammu and have been answerable for a series of crimes together with murders, extortions and even kidnappings. They’ve been at conflict with one another for years. Arrested Anil Singh, police mentioned has as many as 15 FIRs registered in opposition to him together with eight for homicide.

Regardless that police are nonetheless busy investigating the crime, studies showing within the media counsel the Bakra gang has raised and invested practically one crore rupees for the planning and execution of the rival Dogra’s homicide.

The Rival Historical past

The gang wars between the 2 most important gangs of Jammu have been there for a very long time however the latest homicide, police consider, was the results of the 2006 homicide when Billu gang killed the kingpin of Bakra ganga.

On November 25, 2006, unknown assailants shot lifeless Finance Firm proprietor Sanjay Kumar Gupta alias Bakra within the posh Trikuta Nagar locality. As Bakra entered the clinic, two unidentified assailants, apparently whereas popping out of the clinic, opened fireplace from a pistol from an in depth vary and killed him.

Bakra was a resident of Jain Bazaar (Jammu) and would run Mahajan Finance Firm at Residency Highway. He was concerned in numerous circumstances of stabbings and homicide and makes an attempt to homicide. Police investigations counsel that slain Bakra had been rivals of a gang run by Sikander Arora alias Billoo who was murdered contained in the District Jail, Jammu in 1997.

The Bakra assassination plan, because the police revealed later, was the result of utilizing a woman, a resident of Talib Tillo, who briefed the gangster for 15 days and ultimately invited him to the clinic, the place was assassinated.

The Slain

Mohan Cheer, because the slain don was recognized, was a resident of Reasi, and ran a tea stall exterior the Shopper Affairs and Public Distribution Division workplace in Jammu. Moreover, he was allegedly indulging in pilfering ration and kerosene. He topped the Jammu notoriety chart after he killed Sanjay Kumar, the top of the Bakra gang in 2006.

Dogra was jailed for the homicide and moved out after XX years. His household mentioned he survived an assassination bid in 2015 as effectively. This time, nonetheless, his brother Rakesh has alleged his slain brother’s enterprise accomplice Rajeev Sharma, alias Bunty, might have compromised him. He accompanied the deceased proper from Jammu. Bunty was arrested by the police whereas attempting to flee after the shooters killed his accomplice. Rakesh has additionally denied rumours that his brother was killed for his affair along with his good friend’s spouse.

Mohan Cheer was arrested by police inside days after he murdered the Bakra gang founder in 2006 from Delhi.

Principal Classes Choose Jammu convicted the trio for the homicide and on November 30, 2017, they had been awarded life imprisonment. They went to attraction to the superior courtroom. On Might 22, 2018, a division bench of the Excessive Courtroom granted bail to a few accused within the Bakra homicide case, after serving virtually 11 years in jail. The final report advised that the Excessive Courtroom had quashed Dogra alias Mohan Cheer’s detention order below the Public Security Act on September 30, 2023.

After popping out of jail and after turning non secular, as his brother instructed reporters, the previous rivalry took Dogra’s life in Mohali. Inside 4 days, his rival and killer had been nabbed. Since one gang founder is killed and one other is behind bars, does it imply Jammu is free from gangs?