Kala Kaccha Gang
Encyclopedia
Kala Kaccha Gang refers to certain organized criminal gangs in Punjab
, Haryana
and Jammu
, India
. The Kale Kachha gang members are robbers and dacoits, who don police uniform or 'kale kachchhe' to evade detection.
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
, Haryana
Haryana
Haryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...
and Jammu
Jammu
Jammu , also known as Duggar, is one of the three administrative divisions within Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state in India.Jammu city is the largest city in Jammu and the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. The Kale Kachha gang members are robbers and dacoits, who don police uniform or 'kale kachchhe' to evade detection.
Incidents
- In May 2007, the members of the gang attacked a family in Ladhowal. They beat up the family members, raped two of them, and decamped with gold jewellery.
- In June 2007, the gang members killed a farmer, and snatched jewelry from his wife after hitting her.
- In December 2002, the Government ordered judicial probe into the gruesome murder of retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, Pritam Singh, his wife and daughter by Kala Kachcha gang dacoits on the intervening night of 2 and 3 December 2002.
- On October 3, 2002, suspected kale kachche-wale gang members attacked and robbed a veterinary doctor and his two family members in Moga.
- The Punjab Government gave Rs 20,000 to Savitri Devi, whose husband, Ram Chand, was killed with an encounter with the gang at Lachkani village.
- On March 24, 2000, the police busted a kale-kachchhewale gang involved in several robberies in Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur and Amritsar.
- On October 15, 1999, the members of a Kala Kachcha gang killed two persons, raped a woman and robbed cash and valuables from a few houses. They were sentenced to life imprisonmentLife imprisonmentLife imprisonment is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime under which the convicted person is to remain in jail for the rest of his or her life...
on April 29, 2007. - December 2006, the gang attacked a youth in Bhathinda to extort funds. The youth was left for dead and only later admitted to hospital.