Credit war over Rocky’s killing

Groups take to social media, post brazen messages on Facebook

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Jakhar questions security to gangsters

• Reacting over reports that Punjab Police guards were escorting Rocky during his visit to Shimla, Congress leader Sunil Jakhar said allegations against the SAD-led government stood proven that the party had been “shielding gangsters” to meet political ends. He said the slain Fazilka gangster reportedly faced 40 criminal cases.

SSP link?

• Senior police officers don’t think that there is any need to inquire the “closeness” between Rocky and Bathinda SSP Swapan Sharma. But the police have initiated a probe into the use of internet from jails by members of different gangs. “We are ascertaining the location of the Facebook updates,” said a senior officer.

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Tribune News Service

Fazilka, May 1

A day after the killing of 39-year-old gangster-turned-politician Jaswinder Singh Bhullar “Rocky” of Fazilka, near Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh, different groups have claimed the responsibility of killing the gangsters.

The tussle is between Shera Khubban group and Dimpy Chandbhan’s son Sunny Chandbhan’s group. The activists of both groups today stormed the social media, especially Facebook, with their posts regarding claim over Rocky’s murder.

Jai Pal Singh, a notorious gangster from the adjoining Ferozepur district, who is presently absconding, uploaded a collage of Rocky’s pictures this morning on his Facebook account with a post saying, “Jaswinder Singh @ Rocky of Fazilka was murdered yesterday in Himachal Pradesh. I killed him. Those who are saying Dimpy Chandbhan’s son has killed Rocky, I clarify that he could not even give a statement in the case of his father’s killing, how can he kill him.......”

At the end of his post, he wrote, “The game has just started. Just wait and watch”.

Jai Pal, who belongs to Shera Khubban group, is facing some 40 cases of murder, extortion, kidnapping and robbery in different parts of country. He also mocked at the police as he posted his present location at Kasauli. 

Similarly, other activists of the same group Vicky Gounder Sarawan Bodla, who is lodged in Nabha jail, had yesterday uploaded a photo of Rocky with the caption: “Ajj apne veer Shere Khuban da badla pura ho gya.....aah bnata MLA......nale ik gal hor SSP Bathinda Swapan Sharma CIA Bathinda ch mnu kehnda c mitti vich late par mein Rocky de yaar Swapan Sharma nu keha c k mein dsu jdo Rocky nu mitti ch lataya ....Aah hunda asli latena SSP Swapan Sharma.”

The Sunny Chandbhan’s group too claimed the responsibility of killing Rocky. One Sandeep Yadav from another group uploaded a post on his Facebook account: “Rocky Fazilka’s murder is done by Dimpy Chandbhan’s son. But some people are claiming that they have taken the revenge of their brother. He never let you enter Punjab. And after his death you write that you have taken revenge....Rocky had killed Dimpy and Dimpy’s son has taken his revenge...”

Further, some other gangsters called Rocky a traitor, accusing him of having engineered the murder of Dimpy Chandbhan. Rocky was booked for the murder in 2006, but he was acquitted in 2014.

Courtesy: The Tribune