JAIPUR/CHANDIGARH, Nov 20:
A suspected shooter involved in the murder of a Dera Sacha Sauda follower was arrested following a brief encounter in a joint operation by Punjab and Rajasthan police in Ramnagaria area of Jaipur, officials said today.
The main shooter, identified as Ramjan Khan alias Raj Hooda, was injured in his leg in the shoot-out, said Promod Ban, head of the Anti-Gangster Task Force of the Punjab Police.
In Jaipur, Additional DCP (East) Avanish Sharma said that Hooda was hiding in a flat with two others.
“The accused opened fire at police personnel during the raid prompting the police to retaliate. In the exchange of fire, he was injured and has been hospitalised,” he said, adding the role of the two other persons, who have been rounded up, is being examined.
Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda follower Pardeep Singh, an accused in the 2015 Bargari sacrilege case, was shot dead by six assailants in his shop at Kotkapura in Faridkot in Punjab on November 10.
Five shooters have already been arrested in this case. Three of them including two minors were nabbed by the special cell of the Delhi Police while two were arrested by the Punjab police.
Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said the operation was conducted in coordination with central agencies and Rajasthan Police. (PTI)
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