Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 19
The UT police claimed to have seized two revolvers and a pistol with three cartridges from the forest area of Kaimbwala, on the disclosure by Sagar Neutran, the prime suspect in the shooting incident reported outside Eskobar in Sector 9.
DSP Central Krishan Kumar said two country-made revolvers and a country-made .32-bore pistol, along with a magazine and three cartridges, were recovered on Sagar’s instance.
The police said during the interrogation, Sagar disclosed that Bagga Khan and Dalbir Singh, alias Bira, who are currently in the judicial custody, had hired him to kill a person named Shashi Sharma from Jalandhar and these weapons were given to him by them. He conducted a recce of the house of Shashi, but could not kill him due to the presence of police personnel around his house. Thereafter, Sagar concealed these weapons in the forest area.
Shashi Sharma was also attacked in 2018 by other assailants.
‘Supplied by others’
The police said during the interrogation, Sagar disclosed that Bagga Khan and Dalbir Singh, alias Bira, who are currently in the judicial custody, had hired him to kill a person named Shashi Sharma from Jalandhar and these weapons were given to him by them.
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