STATE TIMES NEWS
MOHALI: Police arrested five of the eight suspects, including two tainted cops, involved in the daylight shooting of Jammu-based gangster Rajesh Dogra near the Sector 67 shopping mall here on March 4.
The suspects, identified as Samba resident Anil Singh (kingpin), Meerut resident Harpreet Singh, Pilibhit resident Satvir Singh, Fatehgarh resident Sandeep Singh and Udhampur resident Sham Lal, were booked under Section 302 of the IPC and the Arms Act.
Mohali police said Anil Singh was dismissed while Sham Lal is under suspension by Jammu police. Police seized three pistols, two revolvers, a .12 bore gun and 71 live rounds.
Four luxury vehicles – two registered in J&K, one in Chandigarh and the fourth in Himachal Pradesh – used while committing the crime have also been impounded.
“The brutal killing was planned by Anil Singh with a motive of revenge in gang war. Suspects fled to Pilibhit in UP after the incident. Three of the four vehicles were abandoned in Mohali and only one was taken away,” SSP Sandeep Garg said.
Rajesh Dogra alias Mohan Cheer was a Jammu-based gangster who had come out of jail recently and the rival group members were keeping track on him.
At a shopping mall in Mohali, the incident took place as soon as Dogra, accompanied by two others, reached outside the mall where attackers had reached in two vehicles including one bearing a Jammu and Kashmir registration number. And, the accused fled away.
“Using Cheer’s accomplice, the rival group members called Mohan Cheer at the Mohali mall and shot him dead when he reached the spot and all managed to flee from the spot.
However, Mohali police has solved the case with the arrest of five accused. Three suspects are still at large.