Chandigarh, April 1 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has declined to interfere with a Punjab Police decision to label a Moga resident as a gangster.

The court observed that the petitioner has been declared a gangster as a "precautionary measure" and further has not been denied any benefit otherwise permissible in law to him.

The petition was filed by Mandeep Singh alias Dhroo, who, according to the police, was head of the 'Dharoo' gang.

It was in 2019 that the plaintiff had approached the high court demanding that the Punjab government be directed to remove his name from the list of gangsters.

According to the plea, he is serving a life sentence in a murder case, and his argument was that his name has been put on the list of gangs...