Overview
- The Anti-Gangster Task Force and SAS Nagar police carried out a cordon-and-search at a house near Steel Strips Towers along the Dera Bassi–Ambala highway.
- The suspects opened fire on the raiding team and two were wounded in retaliatory shots, with police saying bullets struck two officers’ bulletproof jackets.
- Officers recovered seven .32-calibre pistols and 70 live cartridges from the location.
- Investigators link the arrested men to the Lawrence Bishnoi network under the direction of foreign-based handler Goldy Dhillon.
- Police say the arrests disrupted plans for targeted attacks in the Chandigarh tricity and Patiala areas, and identified the four as Harvinder Singh alias Bhola, Lakhwinder Singh, Mohammad Samir and Rohit Sharma, all from Patiala.