How a ganag was destroyed

FARIDKOT: The terror created by Nishan Singh and his henchmen while forcibly abducting the minor girl from her house after brutally beating up her parents, has proved to be a turning point in making the residents to join hands and wage war.
The police had to buckle under the mounting pressure and it prepared a foolproof case, which finally turned out fatal for Nishan and his accomplices.Winding up the case, a Faridkot court on Monday sentenced Nishan to life imprisonment in two cases of rape and abduction, whereas sentenced 9 others including his mother Navjot Kaur to 7 years imprisonment.
"Had Nishan's accomplice Rajwinder Ghali not fired in the air on September 24, 2012 while forcibly abducting the minor girl from her place and had not dared the residents to come out to stop them, the people may not have mounted such a pressure on police to arrest the offenders," said town resident Dalip Singh.
"A handful of people had assembled in the evening at the local police station to against the open threat and when others got to know about it, the strength of assembled people started to swell and in no time hundreds of people had got together and the town saw complete shut down the next day, the first such response in many years", said Dalip. Now the terror of Nishan, Rajwinder and others had started thinning away because Rajwinder was facing murder cases and Nishan more than dozen cases.
"The anger did not stop here but the town turned out a mute witness to such bandhs regularly in next two and half months and the police had to arrest all the 20 accused in the case", said activist and lawyer NK Jeet.
Not only the shut downs but going by the anger of people the state chief minister, deputy chief minister did not dare to visit the town in all these months, though earlier they used to visit the place off and on and even the Punjab governor had to cancel a visit to preside over a function at Medical University, said NK Jeet.
It is the power of people which has finished a dreaded gang. It would not have been possible without joining hands by certain organizations and town residents, said Istri Jagriti Manch leader Amandeep Deol. She said though women are not safe in Punjab, but the unity of people could ensure a change for the better and the Faridkot case has proved it.