The driver of the Thar did not stop and fled the scene. The police continued the chase and eventually apprehended the gangster a short distance away.

The deportation is being seen as a significant success for Punjab Police's efforts to target gangsters operating from foreign countries.

Major Singh faces charges related to conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations (RICO) Act and conspiracy to engage in the unlicensed arms trade.

Punjab's drug problem is increasingly becoming a narco-terror and organised-crime challenge, where drugs, illegal weapons, gangsters and Pakistan-based handlers are beginning to intersect

Punjab police officer Gurinderjit Singh Nagra arrested over US racketeering and extortion allegations.

The cop is accused of helping gangsters extort $400,000 from a family in Los Angeles by threatening to file false murder charges against their relatives in India.

According to officials, gangster-linked murder cases fell from four in January to zero in March. 

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which took over the case from the Punjab Police last December, has named Shehzad as an absconder in the supplementary chargesheet filed before a special court, an official statement said.

Punjabi actress Himanshi Khurana lodged a complaint with the Mohali police, claiming that she received an extortion threat of Rs 10 crore from a foreign based gangster, officials said.

Punjab Police have registered a case against two named persons, including a foreign-based gangster, and two unknown individuals in connection with the daylight murder of AAP leader Lucky Oberoi in Jalandhar on Friday

One of the accused in the 2020 murder of a cousin of gangster Goldy Brar was shot dead by two unidentified assailants near the senior superintendent of police's office in Punjab's Mohali on Wednesday, police said.

The parents of foreign-based gangster Goldy Brar have been arrested in a 2024 extortion case in Punjab's Muktsar district on Monday, a senior police official said.

Drawing inspiration from its war against drugs campaign, the Punjab government on Tuesday launched a statewide drive against gangsters aimed at dismantling the entire ecosystem of organised crime.

An alleged gangster, who was an accused in the murder case of a village head in Punjab's Amritsar, was killed in an exchange of fire with police in Tarn Taran district on Tuesday.

Anti Gangster Task Force (AGTF) Punjab has arrested two most-wanted Lawrence Bishnoi gang operatives from the Patiala-Ambala Highway near village Shambhu in Patiala, Director General of Police Punjab, Gaurav Yadav, said on Thursday.

In a significant breakthrough, the Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested another accused, identified as Deepak, related to the 2024 bomb attack outside singer and rapper Badshah's nightclub in Chandigarh.

Udayveer, son of senior Congress leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, allegedly received a death threat from Jaggu Bhagwanpuria.

Punjab's ruling Aam Aadmi Party and the opposition BJP are at loggerheads over the law and order situation, with gangsters like Lawrence Bishnoi and Jaggu Bhagwanpuria operating with impunity in the state.

Pavittar Singh Batala, a gangster from Punjab who is on the NIA's most wanted list, was arrested along with seven other Khalistani terrorists by the FBI in the United States in a gang-related kidnapping case.

On the first day of the special session of the Punjab Assembly, political leaders across party lines addressed the alleged involvement of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi in the murder of Abohar-based businessman Sanjay Verma.

Two members of a gang linked to jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi were shot dead in an encounter with the police in Punjab's Panj Peer Tibba, a day after they killed a businessman in Fazilka district. A policeman was also injured in the gunfight.

The mother of jailed gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria and another person accompanying her died after being shot at by unidentified bike-borne people in Punjab's Batala, police said on Friday.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at 18 places across Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in a terror conspiracy case, linked to pro-Khalistani groups and other anti-national elements who attempts to revive terrorism.

Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is in a Gujarat jail, and his former associate Goldy Brar, who is in America, are scouting for shooters for their respective gangs, sources have told NDTV.