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Gurpreet Singh was returning location aft campaigning for a sarpanch campaigner erstwhile 2 assailants connected a motorcycle opened fire, severely injuring him. (Express Photo)
Two shooters wanted for Wednesday’s execution of Sikh activistic Gurpreet Singh astatine Hari Nau successful Punjab’s Faridkot territory person eluded the constabulary adjacent though they person been progressive successful the area, particularly with the exemplary codification of behaviour for panchayat elections successful place.
Gurpreet Singh was returning location aft campaigning for a sarpanch campaigner erstwhile 2 assailants connected a motorcycle opened fire, severely injuring him. He was deed by 4 bullets. After the shooting, the attackers fled the scene. Singh was rushed to Guru Gobind Singh Medical College, Faridkot, wherever helium was pronounced dead.
Within minutes of the murder, officials from the police’s counterintelligence portion from Ferozpur arrived astatine the scene. Officials of the constabulary unit, which gathers quality to bust transgression networks earlier they strike, claimed they had nary anterior accusation astir the execution and were successful the country for an unrelated operation.
Later that evening, the adjunct inspector wide of the counterintelligence portion successful Bathinda, Avneet Kaur Sidhu, arrived astatine the site, though the jurisdiction belonged to the Faridkot police. It is uncommon for counterintelligence units to prosecute successful post-crime investigations.
The shooters escaped not lone erstwhile counterintelligence officials were contiguous successful the country but besides erstwhile the Faridkot constabulary were actively conducting cordon and hunt operations, mounted crossed the authorities aft the murder.
Despite the heightened constabulary activity, the shooters managed to participate the colony and sprout Gurpreet Singh aggregate times earlier disappearing astir 6 p.m. connected Wednesday.
“The probe is ongoing. I was determination to analyse the execution on with the Faridkot police,” said Avneet Kaur.
When asked if counterintelligence officials from Ferozpur had received immoderate tip-off astir a imaginable transgression successful the area, she replied, “No, they were successful the country for immoderate different operation.”
Pragya Jain, Senior Superintendent of Police, Faridkot, declined to remark connected the beingness of counterintelligence officials adjacent the execution tract and their engagement successful the investigation.
“We are conducting the investigation. It wouldn’t beryllium close to marque immoderate remark connected the probe astatine this stage,” Jain said.
The constabulary person made nary arrests truthful acold but, according to sources, person detained from Hari Nau colony a fishy successful an extortion lawsuit arsenic portion of the investigation. He was released from the Faridkot jailhouse a time aft Gurpreet Singh’s murder.
The sources said that constabulary were investigating a telephone made to the accused successful jailhouse soon aft the execution and were besides looking into whether gangster Arash Dala had a relation successful the case.
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