Man who threatened Punjab police to avenge Gounder's killing arrested

PATIALA: The Facebook handler of Shera Khuban Ale group, who was operating the social media page maintained in the name of the group led by Vicky Gounder from Cyprus has been arrested by the Organised Crime Control Unit (OCCU) of the state government from the IGI airport after he landed here during the wee hours of Monday morning.After being brought back from Delhi Sumit was produced before a court at Rajpura which sent him to five day police remand.The police said a lookout circular (LOC) had also been issued against Sumit Keshwa by the OCCU after the intelligence wing of the state police identified him as the main operator of the Facebook page, which was being used to upload various posts gloryfying the acts of the gangsters. In some of the posts, he also tried to spread the various ideologies.Sumit’s name has been incorporated in the FIR number 57 that had been registered at Rajpura Sadar police station on October 23, last year under Sections 392, 382, 384, 506, 148, 149, Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 and Section 25 of the Arms Act in Sumit Keshwa, who hails from Ludhiana had migrated to Cyprus a few years back and was now settled there.One of the top cops, on condition of anonymity, said the OCCU had prepared a detailed profile of all the posts that had been uploaded by Sumit on the said Facebook page. He said it was through these social media pages that sympathisers of the gangsters tried to glorify their acts by uploading posts from foreign shores.He said Sumit was brought back from Delhi and would be produced before a court where police would seek remand to interrogate him further about his links with the gangsters and his involvement in various crimes.