Five days after a 33-year-old scrap dealer was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Shahkot area of Jalandhar district, police have arrested a contract killer and recovered a foreign-made 9mm pistol used in the crime.
US citizen of Indian origin, Rupinder Kaur Pandher, 72, was lured from Seattle to Ludhiana by a 75-year-old UK-based NRI, Charanjit Singh Grewal, on the pretext of marriage only to be murdered by a contract killer in July, police said on Wednesday. (File photo)
Police officials at the spot where accused Saleem was shot after he tried to snatch a cop’s service gun during a weapon recovery operation in Machhiwara on Tuesday. (HT Photo)
