On Saturday, Punjab RSS Vice President Retd Brigadier Jagdish Gagneja was shot in Jalandhar. A day later, Punjab police are now probing a possible terror angle in the attack.
The police suspect two Sikh men on a motorcycle, based on an 11-minute CCTV footage from a nearby shop. The footage shows two men with their faces covered slowing down their bike near an electronics shop at Jyoti Chowk in Jalandhar, hardly 200 metres from where Gagneja was shot.
Eyewitnesses confirmed that two motorcycle-borne men shot Gagneja, who was transferred from Patel Hospital in Jalandhar to Ludhiana’s Dayanand Medical College and Hospital on Sunday. Jalandhar police have recovered five shells – four of .32 bore weapon and one 9 mm pistol.
The shell from the 9 mm pistol is what led police to investigate the terror angle as it is prohibited for general public use and is very hard to acquire. Only terrorists, police and the armed forces have been known to use the 9 mm.
Source: The Times of India
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