{"id":58253,"date":"2019-12-12T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=58253"},"modified":"2019-12-12T12:30:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:00:58","slug":"gangster-jaggu-bhagwanpuria-approaches-court-says-he-may-be-killed-in-fake-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/gangster-jaggu-bhagwanpuria-approaches-court-says-he-may-be-killed-in-fake-encounter","title":{"rendered":"Gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria approaches court, says he may be killed in &#8216;fake encounter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Gangster-Jaggu-Bhagwanpuria.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58267\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/gangster-jaggu-bhagwanpuria-approaches-court-says-he-may-be-killed-in-fake-encounter\/gangster-jaggu-bhagwanpuria\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Gangster-Jaggu-Bhagwanpuria.jpg?fit=297%2C170&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"297,170\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Gangster-Jaggu-Bhagwanpuria.jpg?fit=297%2C170&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58267\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Gangster-Jaggu-Bhagwanpuria.jpg?resize=297%2C170&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Gangster-Jaggu-Bhagwanpuria.jpg?w=297&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Gangster-Jaggu-Bhagwanpuria.jpg?resize=150%2C86&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a>Gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria, who is lodged in Patiala jail, on Wednesday approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court, expressing fear that he might be killed in a &#8220;fake encounter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a plea filed before the court, Bhagwanuria sought protection for his life and demanded that he be shifted to Amritsar jail.<\/p>\n<p>He also sought to make it clear that he had no links with Punjab Jails Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia.<\/p>\n<p>Bhagwanpuria, in his petition, said he was being made a &#8220;scapegoat&#8221; on account of political rivalry brewing between Randhawa and Majithia and was &#8220;merely being used for the realisation of political motives of certain individuals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Harnaresh Singh Gill issued a notice of motion to the state government on his plea and fixed January 21 as the next date for hearing, Bhagwanpuria&#8217;s counsel Pradeep Virk said.<\/p>\n<p>The counsel submitted that Majithia was trying to get an FIR registered against Randhawa in a murder case of Gurdaspur district Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) vice-president Dalbir Singh Dhilwan by portraying Bhagwanpuria as the minister&#8217;s &#8220;henchman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Virk further stated that Majithia had also accused Bhagwanpuria of giving him death threats as a part of this &#8220;malicious propaganda&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Randhawa has been levelling allegations to the extent that the petitioner had been working for long under the clout of Akali Dal leaders as a total of 44 cases were registered against him, of which 29 were lodged in Amritsar (Rural), which is Majithia&#8217;s constituency, the counsel said.<\/p>\n<p>Bhagwanpuria was in the news in the past few days after both Majithia and Randhawa accused each other of having links with the gangster.<\/p>\n<p>Virk said the petitioner has expressed apprehension that he might be killed in a &#8220;fake encounter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Various endeavours are also being made by certain jail officials to kill him by staging a false encounter&#8230;or in the alternative he would be killed in the prison itself,&#8221; 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