Overview
- Chandigarh Police registered an FIR against Lucky Patial and unidentified accomplices after four shots were fired outside businessman Manpreet Singh Saini’s Sector 38 home.
- CCTV footage shows two men on a motorcycle firing outside Saini’s residence, with four cartridge cases recovered and no injuries reported.
- Investigators say Saini earlier received international and WhatsApp threats, including a ₹2 crore demand, which prompted the extortion and attempt-to-murder case.
- Police detained several people for questioning but report no evidence so far that Patial ordered the firing, with forensic analysis and digital tracing underway.
- In a separate case hours later, two assailants fired more than 35 rounds at retired officer Maninder Singh Sodhi’s Phase 7, Mohali house; police recovered about 25 shells, seized papers naming a ‘Kala Rana Group,’ and are probing possible gang intimidation as part of a wider spate of shootings this week.