Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Who was Rocky

Who was Rocky 

Jaswinder Singh Bhullar, alias Rocky, unsuccessfully contested the elections as an Independent from Fazilka in 2012
  • He gave a close fight to BJP candidate Surjit Kumar Jyani, now Health Minister, polling 39,209 votes against Jyani's 40,901
  • During the 2014 Lok Sabha poll, he backed SAD candidate Sher Singh Ghubaya from Ferozepur
  • Rocky was released from jail in 2009 and was brought to his hometown in a huge cavalcade
  • Earlier with the Prabhjinder Singh ‘Dimpy’ gang, he was booked for the gangster's murder in a shootout near the Chandigarh Lake Club in 2006; he was acquitted in 2014
  • In March last year, the Faridkot police had arrested him in connection with an arms smuggling case and was out on bail
  •  Rocky had a huge fan following in Fazilka, Muktsar; he was reportedly close to UP gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari
  • He was facing about 30 cases of murder, extortion, kidnapping, conspiracy, illegal confinement and illegal weapons registered in several parts of the country
— Archit Watts

Courtesy: The Tribune

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