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This is an archive article published on January 19, 2016

Shot fired outside RSS shakha in Ludhiana

One person went inside the shakha, accosted a participant and fired a single shot.

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Two unidentified persons opened fire outside RSS Shakha in Kidwai Nagar, Ludhiana on Monday at around 6.30 am. The police said that two persons on a motorcycle fired a single shot in the air. No one was reported to be injured.

Deputy commissioner of police Narinder Bhargav said that two unidentified persons came outside the Shaheedi Park, Kidwai Nagar where the morning assembly at the shaka was about to begin.

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One person went inside, accosted a participant and fired a single shot. One cartridge case of 0.32 bore pistol has been recovered from the spot.

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An FIR was registered under sections 307/336 IPC and 25/27 Arms Act at a local police station.

Bhargav added that investigation has been fast tracked and adequate security has been deployed outside the shakha as a precautionary measure.

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab.       ... Read More

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