Firing at chemist shops: Gurdaspur police nab two miscreants

The Gurdaspur police have arrested two persons involved in yesterday’s firing incidents in which some miscreants had fired shots at the owners of chemist shops in Kalanaur and Dalam village of Gurdaspur and Batala police districts, respectively.

In the Kalanaur incident, the son of the chemist shop owner had received a telephone call from Canada in which the caller had claimed that he was a “man of Jaggu Bhagwanpuria”.

Bhagwanpuria is a known gangster of the area and at present is lodged in Silchar jail in Assam.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Aditya said he had formed a team of senior officials to look into the firing incidents.

“We followed the technical footprints of the case. Those arrested have been identified as Sarabjit Singh and Lovepreet Singh. While Sarabjit Singh hails from a village falling under the Dera Baba Nanak police station, Lovepreet is from a village which comes under the ambit of Qila Lal Singh police station of Batala police district,” said the Senior Superintendent of Police.

An official said the firing at Dalam village was orchestrated by a foreign-based gangster Amrit Dalam.