SAD leader, friend hurt in ‘attack’ in Mandi Gobindgarh

Fatehgarh Sahib, June 29

Fear gripped Mandi Gobindgarh after two unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants allegedly attacked SAD leader Rajiv Singla with a kirpan in his office in broad daylight and fired at him.

The leader’s friend, Neetu Sharma, who was in the office at the time of the incident, was also injured in the attack. Both of them were rushed to the Mandi Gobindgarh Civil Hospital from where Rajiv was referred to the Apollo Hospital in Ludhiana. Rajiv and Neetu are stable. Cops reached the spot and began the investigation.

“Earlier, he had lodged an FIR about someone setting ablaze his car parked in front of his house and last year too, he had complained of being attacked in a park. The police, however, did not find any evidence in both the cases nor could he prove those charges,” said a police official.

Rajiv, however, said he had given a letter to the police apprehending threat to his life. On Rajiv’s statement, an FIR has been registered against two unidentified miscreants.— OC