Overview
- Police said Gagandeep Singh and Harpreet Singh, alias Honey, were taken into custody on Sunday in connection with the shooting of 25-year-old Tejpal Singh.
- Tejpal Singh was intercepted by a group, beaten, and shot in the chest on Hari Singh Hospital Road near the Ludhiana (Rural) SSP office on Friday afternoon.
- SSP Ankur Gupta said preliminary findings point to a personal enmity and rejected a viral social-media claim of gang involvement as fake.
- An FIR under Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita section 101 and the Arms Act was registered as teams from the Jagraon City Police and the Crime Investigation Agency analyzed CCTV and conducted raids.
- The victim’s family had refused cremation pending arrests, while visiting political leaders criticized the state’s law-and-order situation.