“His name was Hardeep Singh and this ‘Shera’ (is something) we are just hearing of now,” says Surinder, almost unable to relate the two faces of her son. Police sources say Hardeep took on the name Shera after Khuban Shera, a gangster of Khuban village in Fazilka, who was allegedly killed in an encounter with the Punjab police in Bathinda in 2012. No one in the village wishes to talk about Hardeep, even if it was merely to enquire the route to his home. When visiting us, he would mostly stay at home and only in the evenings would he go to the gym. Next: Is the gangster in Punjab the new youth icon?

Source: Hindustan Times November 24, 2017 03:35 UTC