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The unfortunate was identified arsenic Rajwinder Singh, 38, a nonmigratory of Talwandi Mohar village. (Representational Image)
An Aam Aadmi Party idiosyncratic was allegedly changeable dormant Monday by 3 unidentified persons, hardly hours aft helium celebrated a enactment colleague’s unopposed predetermination to the station of sarpanch successful the ongoing Punjab panchayat election, constabulary said.
The unfortunate was identified arsenic Rajwinder Singh, 38, a nonmigratory of Talwandi Mohar village. Three unidentified radical connected a motorcycle, intercepted Rajwinder’s car adjacent Takkarpur colony and opened occurrence astatine him, constabulary said.
SSP Gaurav Toora said the incidental occurred astir 2:30 pm. “The attackers, who came connected a motorcycle, archetypal engaged successful a speech with Rajwinder and aboriginal opened fire. The shooters did not screen their faces,” said SSP, adding that Rajwinder was changeable successful the chest. He was rushed to a infirmary wherever helium died.
Hours earlier the incident, Rajwinder had celebrated the unopposed predetermination of Raj Kaur, arsenic sarpanch from his village.
In a Facebook post, Doni Bal and Prabh Dasuwala, some associates of gangster Gopi Ghanshyampuria, claimed work for the attack. It said that erstwhile 1 of Gopi’s associates was murdered, Rajwinder allegedly sheltered the accused and his accomplices. Police, however, did not corroborate if the station was so made by the gangster oregon his associates.
An FIR has been lodged against unidentified persons connected execution charges, constabulary said. AAP person and MP Malvinder Singh Kang said the enactment and the authorities basal with Rajvinder’s family.
This is the 2nd specified incidental wherever a person, connected with the ongoing panchayat polls,
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