AMRITSAR: Punjab police claims to have busted an extortion racket allegedly operated by gangster Harry Chattha with the arrest of its key associate identified as Navneet Singh alias Nav of Batala following a brief encounter that took place near village Balpurian in Batala, informed the Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Saturday.
He informed that police had also arrested three more people identified as Gagandeep Singh alias Kaala of village Bal in Batala, Balraj Singh alias Baaz of village Amargarh Shahpur in Gurdaspur and Prem Kumar alias Ghulla of village Umarval allegedly for their direct involvement, while, other three arrested accused persons identified as Harpreet Singh alias Preet of Majitha Road Amritsar, Sukhraj Singh of village Lakhanpal in Gurdaspur and Darshan Singh alias Darshi of Sudhaar in Jagraon were brought on production warrant from different jails for providing logistic support.