Attack on advocate : 2 held

Mohali, September 20 

The Mohali police claimed to have arrested two persons, who had allegedly opened fire on a local advocate in May this year. The accused have been identified as Varinder Singh from Fallewall village, Sangrur, and Jaspreet Singh, alias Bamba, from Daad village, Ludhiana. The police also recovered a .32 pistol, rifle, cartridges, car, laptop, mobile phone and Rs 25,500 in old currency notes from their possession. 

The police claimed that the accused had opened fire on local advocate Harkishan Singh near Radha Soami Satsang Bhawan when he was on his way to the local district courts at Sector 76. 

The attackers had also tried to hit the victim with an iron rod before opening the fire. However, the advocate managed to save himself from the attack. 

The police said during the preliminary investigation, it came out that the accused had attacked the victim after taking money from his brother-in-law, identified as Gurpreet Singh Canada. “Gurpreet’s wife had taken divorce from him and he (Gurpreet) suspected that being an advocate, Harkishan was supporting his wife. Gurpreet had come to Punjab around four months ago. Then he hired the accused to commit the crime,” said the police. — TNS