Police arrest gangster Shera wanted in Begowal murder after 1900km chase across six States

KAPURTHALA: Cracking the murder case of 23-year-old Begowal Youth, the Kapurthala
Police have arrested a murder accused after an over 20-day long,
1900-km chase across six states.

The accused has been identified as Daljit Singh Shera resident of
Kartarpur Jalandhar.

In a press release, Senior Superintendent of Police Harkamalpreet
Singh Khakh said that the accused has been nabbed by police team from
Cyberabad in Telangana.

Disclosing further information about the murder case, the SSP said
that on the late evening of June 18, the accused along with some of
his associates shot dead a 23-year-old youth, Mukul, when the latter
was returning home from the playground. He said that the accused
suspecting Mukul's involvement in murder of their gang member.

On the statement of victim's father, the police started investigation
by registering a case against four gangsters named Daljit Singh Shera,
Mangal Singh, Lovely and Prince at the Begowal police station.

The SSP said that on the same day the police got information that the
same accused snatched a white Swift car (PB07BS1713)

from Tanda area of Hoshiarpur by thrashing a Pastor and firing in the
air. The accused left their scooty used in murder nearby, which was
later recovered by the police.

Days after the murder, accused Daljit Singh Shera took responsibility
for the murder and also wrote a post on his Facebook and threatened
some others with dire consequences.

SSP told that police teams were technically chasing the accused since
the day of the murder but Shera was constantly changing his hideouts
in different states like Haryana, UP, Bihar, Maharashtra and Odisha
and finally tracked in Telangana.

The robbed car of Tanda's Pastor was later recovered from Maharashtra
by the police where the accused left it developed a snag.

He told that on June 29, the police teams were on the way to raid his
hideout in Telangana and meanwhile got information that Shera tried to
grab mobiles from some girls after showing gun and threatening to
shoot them. The girls got scared and and dialled 100 after running
towards main road following which Gachibowli police reached the spot.

SSP told that the police teams arrested him there and brought him back
to Punjab today.

The police team would produce him before the magistrate and seek
police remand to complete the investigation and arrest the rest of the
accused in the murder.

SSP said that the weapons used in the murder of Mukul have also been
seized by the Telangana Police in the said case.