CHANDIGARH, Jan 28:
One of the accused in the 2020 murder of a cousin of gangster Goldy Brar was fatally shot by two unidentified assailants today near the Senior Superintendent of Police’s office in Punjab’s Mohali, police said.
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The victim, identified as Gurwinder, had come to a court along with his wife for a hearing in an opium recovery case when the assailants fired several rounds at him, killing him on the spot.
Meanwhile, in an unverified post on social media, gangsters Goldy Brar, Rohit Godara and Vicky Pehalwan claimed responsibility for the killing of Gurwinder while citing his alleged involvement in the murder of Gurlal Singh Brar.
Gurlal Singh Brar, the cousin of foreign-based gangster Goldy Brar, was shot dead in Chandigarh in 2020.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Patiala Range, Nanak Singh, said Gurwinder had come for a hearing in a 4 kg opium recovery case and was on bail in this matter.
Singh said Gurwinder had a criminal background and had been named in the Gurlal Brar murder case. “This angle is also being examined,” he said.
An eyewitness of the fatal shooting said he initially thought a car tyre had burst. But then he saw a man, wearing a cap and having a fair complexion, firing multiple rounds at a point-blank range, he said.
The assailant’s other accomplice was waiting for him at some distance on a bike, said the eyewitness who is an advocate by profession.
“We are investigating the matter. We assure you that soon the assailants will be caught. We have leads, and we have information on who got it done. We are working on it,” the DIG told reporters.
To a question, he said multiple police teams have been deployed to nab the accused and a forensic team has collected samples from the site. (PTI)
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