For his role in solving several sensational cases including those of targeted killings which had rocked the State during 2015-17, Punjab’s Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Bikramjit Singh Brar has been chosen for the Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation.

Brar, currently posted as DSP Detective in SAS Nagar (Mohali) with the additional charge in the Organized Crime Control Unit (OCCU), has also been instrumental in busting of Billa Mandiala cross-border terror module leading to recovery of one of biggest caches of highly sophisticated weapons.

“The officer had also played a key role in arrest of gangster Sukhpreet Singh alias Budha, besides solving sensational murder of Amritsar former sarpanch Gurdeep Singh,” said the state Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta.

Brar had also busted a racket of illegal diversion of 160 firearms from gun houses to terrorists and gangsters, the DGP added.

Gupta said that Brar was also the pivot of a major police operation which led to the arrest of 23 persons involved in the racket, including two gangsters and gun house owners, and recovery of 36 illegally diverted weapons. “This racket had supplied the illegal weapons used in the targeted killings between 2015 and 2017,” he added.

Congratulating the DSP for his achievement, the state police chief termed it as an “honour for the whole force in acknowledgement of its professional integrity, sense of service and scientific ethos in service of state and country”.

Gupta hoped the honour would act as inspiration and motivation to always put in our best to ensure safety and security of our people.

The Award was instituted in 2018 for promoting high professional standards of investigation of crime, and, to recognize such investigations by investigating officers of various police organizations in the country.