Punjab Police arrested two key shooters, members of the Arsh Dalla gang, from Kharar on Saturday, a month after Gurpreet Singh, alias Bhodi, a Kotkapura-based Sikh activist, was shot dead by four assailants at Hari Nau village in Faridkot district

Mohali : Punjab Police arrested two key shooters, members of the Arsh Dalla gang, from Kharar on Saturday, a month after Gurpreet Singh, alias Bhodi, a Kotkapura-based Sikh activist, was shot dead by four assailants at Hari Nau village in Faridkot district.

The state special operation cell, Mohali, along with Faridkot police and anti-gangster task force (AGTF) sleuths conducted a joint operation and arrested the accused from a lounge inside Swaraj Enclave in Kharar, officials familiar with the development said.

The accused reached Kharar on Friday evening following which our teams arrested them on Saturday,” a senior police officer said.

The Faridkot police had released sketches of shooters last month.

On October 9, Singh, a member of Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh’s ‘Waris Punjab De’, was shot dead by four unidentified bike-borne assailants when he was returning from a gurdwara.

Punjab Police had claimed that the Sikh activist was murdered at the behest of Amritpal Singh, who is lodged in Dibrugarh jail of Assam under the stringent National Security Act (NSA).