Kala Kaccha Gang

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Kala Kaccha Gang (also known as Kale Kachchewale or Kale Kachche gang or "Black Underwear gang") refers to certain organized criminal gangs in Punjab, Haryana and Jammu. The Kale Kachha gang members are robbers and dacoits, who wear black underwear and apply mustard oil on their body so that nobody can catch them. They attack mostly in nights on families with iron rods, chains, base ball bats.

[edit] Incidents

In May 2007, the members of the gang attacked a family in Ladhowal. They beat up the family members, raped two of them, and decamped with gold jewelery.^[1]
In June 2007, the gang members killed a farmer, and snatched jewelry from his wife after hitting her.^[2]
In December 2002, the Government ordered judicial probe into the gruesome murder of retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, Pritam Singh, his wife and daughter by Kala Kachcha gang dacoits on the intervening night of 2nd and 3rd December 2002.
On October 3, 2002, suspected kale kachche-wale gang members attacked and robbed a veterinary doctor and his two family members in Moga.^[3]
The Punjab Government gave Rs 20,000 to Savitri Devi, whose husband, Ram Chand, was killed with an encounter with the gang at Lachkani village.
On March 24, 2000, the police busted a kale-kachchhewale gang involved in several robberies in Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur and Amritsar.^[4]
On October 15, 1999, the members of a Kala Kachcha gang killed two persons, raped a woman and robbed cash and valuables from a few houses. They were sentenced to life imprisonment on April 29, 2007.^[5]