Cops clueless in ISBT murder case

Even after more than 24 hours elapsed, the city police was yet to make any breakthrough in the Makhan Singh murder case. Makhan Singh was gunned down by several armed assailants at the Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) in broad daylight here on Tuesday.

Soon after the incident, notorious gangsters Donny Bal, Kaushal Chaudhary and Prabh Dassuwal had taken responsibility for the murder while claiming that the deceased was a close confidant of their rival and category-A gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria.

The police have formed around six teams for scanning the CCTV cameras near the spot and in the city to identify the perpetrators and their subsequent arrest.

Jasroop Kaur Bath, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP), said that efforts were on to identify and arrest the culprits.

The Assistant Adda In-charge of a private transport company was shot dead at the ISBT here on Tuesday. Makhan suffered four bullet injuries and died on the spot. The police had recovered six empty shells from the spot and are scanning CCTV footage to identify the assailants.

The incident stemmed from a heated dispute between employees of two private bus transport companies over picking up passengers first. Eyewitnesses told the police that while the argument was on, one of the employees, in a fit of rage, pulled out a weapon and opened fire. The assailant fled immediately after the shooting.