Man shot at near PGI,stable

The bullet hit Sanju on his shoulder. He was rushed to PGI where his condition is stated to be stable.

The victim’s family told the police that a Ludhiana resident,who had filed a case of kidnapping against Sanju,was behind the incident.

The police said they got the spot examined by forensic experts,dog squad and anti-sabotage squad but could not recover the bullet shell. Surprisingly,an officer said,the assailants intercepted him only after he had entered the PGI residential complex,where private security is deployed and the movement of people was considerably higher than outside.

Sector 11 police station SHO Inspector Sukhbir Rana said the case was registered on the complaint of Sanju’s father Jagbir Singh.

The police said Sanju had an affair with a girl living in the same complex and her family was against the match,due to which the two eloped last year. Her family lodged a case of kidnapping against him at the Sector 17 police station and the case is pending trial. The matter is sub judice and the girl’s Ludhiana-based brother-in-law Hemant is pursuing the case.

Sanju told the police that one of the assailants was Hemant while he could not identify the other two. The police said a police team had been sent to Ludhiana to trace Hemant and the two others.