The encounter website at Bhakna village, 20 km from Amritsar.
Chandigarh:
Two gangsters, suspected to be among the many shooters in singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s homicide, had been killed in a shootout with the police close to Amritsar at present. Three policemen had been injured too. Whereas Jagroop Singh Roopa was killed first, the opposite suspect, Manpreet Singh alias Mannu Kussa, continued to fireplace for about an hour earlier than he was killed round 4 pm, in a shootout that lasted greater than 4 hours, officers mentioned.
Within the crossfire, a information channel’s cameraperson received a bullet damage in his proper leg.
The home the place the gangsters had been holed up.
State police chief Gaurav Yadav additionally reached the location by the top of the encounter at Bhakna village, 20 km from Amritsar. “An AK-47 rifle, a pistol and a lot of bullets have been discovered,” ADGP Pramod Ban, who heads Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Process Pressure, advised reporters on the website.
The encounter began round midday as the duty pressure had been tailing the 2 males. They had been amongst three shooters who had been nonetheless on the run. Whereas these two had been tracked down, Deepak Mundi has not been traced but. The remainder — there have been no less than eight shooters — have been arrested.
Ambulances had reached the spot simply minutes earlier than police declared Jagroop Roopa useless. The world, round 10 km from the border with Pakistan, had been cordoned off and other people advised to remain indoors.
Jagroop Singh Roopa and Manpreet Singh, alias Mannu Kussa, belonged to villages in Tarn Taran, in the identical border belt the place the encounter befell.
Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, alias Sidhu Moose Wala, 28, who was a Congress chief in addition to being a singer-songwriter and rapper, was shot useless close to his village Moosa in Punjab’s Mansa district on Might 29.
Mannu Kussa had fired the primary pictures at Moose Wala from an AK-47 rifle, police sources mentioned.
Police from Punjab, Delhi and Mumbai are on the case. The homicide was directed allegedly by Canada-based Satinderjit Singh, alias Goldy Brar, in coordination with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who was already in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
Goldy Brar is alleged to have claimed duty for the homicide by Fb posts. The posts mentioned it was revenge for the homicide of an Akali chief Vicky Middukhera final yr. Interpol has since issued a Pink Nook Discover to hint Goldy Brar in reference to two different circumstances registered at Faridkot in Punjab.
Punjab’s Bhagwant Mann-led AAP authorities has been dealing with questions, too, because the homicide befell only a day after Sidhu Moose Wala’s safety was reduce down to 2 cops as half of a bigger drive in opposition to “VIP tradition”. Nevertheless, the singer hadn’t taken the 2 cops alongside, nor was he utilizing his bulletproof automobile, when he was attacked.
