12 booked for firing at Amritsar NSUI chief Kanish Batra
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, June 28
Around 12 persons were booked for allegedly firing at and assaulting the local president of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), Kanish Batra, here on Saturday.
Among those booked included Makhan Singh and Adeshwar Singh Sandhu, both residents of Green Avenue here; Disnam of Beauty Avenue; Diveyam of Basant Avenue; Aryan Arora of Beauty Avenue; Salman of White Avenue; Vansh of Preet Vihar; and five unidentified persons.
A case under Sections 307, 323, 341, 148, 149 and 379-B of the IPC and Sections 25, 54 and 59-A of the Arms Act has been registered in this regard.
Batra told the police that he, along with his friend Katish of Lawrence Road, was going to Beauty Avenue to meet his uncle and when he reached near the Race Course Road-Basant Avenue turn, one of the accused, Adeshwar Singh Sandhu, fired at him from his revolver with an intention to kill him.
He said he sat down to save himself and thereafter Dishnam hit him with a beer bottle leaving him seriously injured. He said he was bleeding profusely while the accused assaulted him with iron rods. He alleged the accused also snatched his wrist watch and Rayban goggles before fleeing.
The police said investigation was under progress while the accused were on the run.
