Jalandhar, May 26 -- Punjab Police on Monday arrested Lavish Kumar, a close aide of foreign-based gangsters Arsh Dalla and Jindi Mehandipuria, in a joint operation carried out by counter-intelligence Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur Police, with the help of Gujarat Police.

Lavish Kumar was caught in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

He was working on the orders of Arsh Dalla and was involved in several serious crimes, including firing at people to threaten them and extort money. Multiple cases of murder and "attempted extortion through gunfire" have already been registered against him, Punjab Director General of Police (DGP), Gaurav Yadav, shared the information in an X post.

Initial investigations revealed that Lavish had recently done a "reconnaissance of...