Tota's harbourer arrested

CHANDIGARH: The crime branch of the city police on Sunday arrested another harbourer of a notorious criminal - Anil Kumar Tota and also a recovered a pistol he is alleged to have bought from Tota. Tota is wanted by Chandigarh and Mohali police in two murder and two robbery cases.
The suspected harbourer, Devinder Singh, alias Koka, a resident of Sector 18, was arrested from near the Sector 16 cricket stadium, while he was moving in his Scorpio jeep.A 9 mm pistol and 11 cartridges were also recovered from him. Koka did not have any licence for it and is learnt to have told police that he had bought this pistol for Rs 80,000 from Tota.Koka has been booked under the Arms Act and for harbouring Tota.
Koka is also an activist of a Chandigarh-based political party. Sources said that Koka had been harbouring Tota whenever he came to the city.
In fact, in October when Tota, along with three other criminals, had made a murderous attempt on the life of a Sector 40 resident and robbed him, he had stayed with Koka.
Police sources said that Koka has been maintaining contact with Tota for long and has visited him in Delhi and other hideouts. Koka is alleged to have chosen the weapon, which was recovered from him, from a range of many weapons shown to him by Tota. Koka''s role in Tota''s criminal activities is also being studied. The crime branch has already arrested three persons on the charge of harbouring Tota. Two of them were the parents of Tota''s mistress and the other a Mohali-based barber.