Four nabbed, suspect opens fire at cops during weapon recovery, CIA chief hurt

Almost a week after four armed assailants had opened fire at four friends leaving one of them, Gurvinder Singh Ginda (21), dead and Dharampal, alias Dharma, injured at Manki village in Samrala, the Khanna police had arrested the four suspects from Tarn Taran on Sunday.

On Monday when the CIA took the suspects to a defunct toll plaza building in Samrala where the suspects had concealed weapons, one of the suspects fired at police officials. CIA in-charge Narpinderpal Singh suffered a bullet injury in the thigh. In retaliation, the police also fired shots and one of the bullets hit a suspect.

Senior Superintendent of Police, Khanna, Jyoti Yadav, confirmed to The Tribune that on Sunday morning, Khanna police had arrested four suspects from Tarn Taran. They were identified as Harkaran Singh Karan, a resident of Madpur, Gurtej Singh Teji of Chak Sarai, Jaspreet Singh Jassu, a resident of Chak Sarai, and Rajveer Singh Lalli of Madpur.

During questioning of the suspects, they confessed that after committing the murder, they had concealed weapons at defunct toll plaza building in Samrala. Karan and Gurtej were taken to the first floor of the defunct toll building from where one weapon was recovered. As Karan was taken to another room to recover a weapon, he found a weapon and fired shots at the police officials, during which the CIA in-charge was injured. In self-defence, when police personnel also fired shots, Karan suffered a bullet injury in his joints. During the firing, Gurtej jumped from the first floor of building and suffered injuries. The policemen caught hold of both suspects and shifted them to a hospital.

“Now, further questioning of the suspects is on. Their links with gangster Anmol Bishnoi’s aide Ravi Rajgarh are being inquired. Ravi was also brought on production warrant from jail last week and he admitted his links with the nabbed suspects but he admitted that he had not ordered killing of Gurvinder. Their group, led by gangster Anmol Bishnoi, had took responsibility of the murder just to spread terror of the Bishnoi group,” the SSP said.

She said personal enmity of one of the murder suspects, Karan, with deceased Gurvinder’s friend Dharampal became the cause of the murder. The suspects had gone to kill Dharampal but Gurvinder had died while the other person escaped with a bullet injury. Karan’s father was reportedly beaten up by Dharampal during a blood donation camp and Karan wanted to take revenge, which led to the killing of Gurvinder and bullet injury to Dharampal,” revealed the SSP.