Two shooters involved in murders of Kabaddi player Nangal Ambian & Sukhmeet deouty also held
Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh/Amritsar, January 27-
Counter Intelligence Amritsar has foiled a possible target killing with the arrest of six members of Kaushal Chaudhary Gang, including two key shooters identified as Puneet Lakhanpal and Narinder Kumar alias Lalli, who were involved in the murders of Kabaddi player Sandeep Singh Nangal Ambian and Sukhmeet Singh alias Deputy, said DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Monday.
The other four arrested members have been identified as Harpreet Singh alias Happal of Guru Har Sahai in Ferozepur, Gurbhinder Singh of Chattiwind Lehal in Amritsar, Sandeep Singh of Village Rajdhan in Amritsar and Maninderjit Singh alias Shinda of Badowal Jhande in Ludhiana. Police teams have also recovered six .30 bore foreign-made pistols along with 40 rounds from their possession.
DGP said that the same gang was also involved in firing indiscriminately at the Highway King Hotel in Rajasthan and demanding an extortion of Rs 5 crores in September 2024. All the arrested accused persons have a criminal history and they were evading arrests since the last three years, he added.