The chief minister also said that there would be an expansion of the state Cabinet after municipal elections are held in Ludhiana.
"While the death of gangsters is not a cause for celebration, such criminals should realise that nobody was above the law, nor could they escape the law for long," said the chief minister in response to media queries at an event organised by Chandigarh Press Club here.
Punjab Police had on January 26 eliminated -the most wanted Vicky Gounder, his associate Prema Lahoria, and Sawinder Singh, who succumbed to bullet injuries later in an encounter at village Pakki under Hindu Malkot police station in Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan.
Yesterday, family members of Gounder had alleged that Gounder and Lahoria were killed in a fake encounter.
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He made it clear that though the gangsters would have to meet their fate under the law, the government would, at the same time, make all efforts for their eventual rehabilitation.
To a question on allegations of a fake encounter by the families of Gounder and his aides, Amarinder Singh dismissed the charges as false.
To another question, he said that the cabinet expansion would be undertaken after the Ludhiana municipal elections. The selection would once again be based on merit, he added.
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