Two dreaded gangsters from Punjab Jaipal Bhullar and Jaspreet Kharar were on Wednesday killed in an encounter at the plush residential complex of New Town, north-east of Kolkata.
A team of Special Task Force raided the up market premises where the duo were hiding for the past more than three weeks, sources said adding “as soon as the police entered the area they were received with gunshots in which an inspector KM Ghosh was injured… the STF commandos retaliated in which they were killed.”
Son of a police officer Bhullar had 40 cases --- including murder, extortion, robbery, kidnapping, drug-racketing, arms-smuggling etc — registered against his name. He had fled Punjab after shooting dead two assistant sub-inspectors and Jagraon. He was wanted in Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, police said adding they carried a bounty of Rs 10 lakh on them announced by Punjab Police.
The police got information of their presence in the area following seizures of truck loads of explosives and sophisticated weapons from Siuri in Birbhum district and another arms haul at Baidyabati in Hooghly district, sources said.