Vishesh Gupta murder: Prime suspect arrested

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 27

The police arrested Karandeep Singh, the prime suspect in the Vishesh Gupta murder case, from Gurdaspur area on Monday. The police have launched a hunt to arrest him as he was evading the arrest since the incident.

Interrogation were under progress to ascertain the identities of those who shot Gupta dead, said Manjit Singh, Assistant Commissioner of Police, East. He said that Karandeep was arrested from Gurdaspur following a tip-off. He said his accomplices who had shot Gupta belonged to Gurdaspur area.

“We have identified his accomplices and they would be arrested soon,” he said, During a preliminary probe, the police found that Gupta’s murder was the handiwork of Supari killers. He was shot at by two unknown bike borne persons on December 11 outside his shop when sat in his car after closing down the shop. He succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital in Noida.

The police had booked Karandeep Singh of Khat Khokhar area in Gurdaspur and his unidentified accomplices in this regard. The perpetrators’ actual target was Shivam Gupta, cousin of the deceased.

Shivam was engaged to a girl in Pathankot area who allegedly had an affair with the accused Karandeep Singh. Karandeep had approached Shivam’s family and asked them to reject the marriage proposal while issuing threats. He later apologized before the police and assured not to indulge in such act again.