NIA QUIZZES FORMER SHIV SENA LEADER

LUDHIANA:A team of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) Friday met former Shiv Se na Punjab Youth wing leader Am it A rora at a hotel in Ludhiana and recorded his statement about the attack on him. Ar ora was reportedly shot at by assailants on February 3 last year near Basti Jodhewal Chowk.He suffered bullet injury on his neck.

Later, the Ludhiana police had arrested Arora for allegedly orchestrating the attack on himself. The police had claimed that Arora was hoping for security cover. He was already provided two gunmen, but he wanted an escort vehicle too. After his arrest, the Shiv Se na Punjab had expelled him from the party for it.

After arrest of Ramandeep Singh ‘Canadian’ and Hardeep Singh Shera, accused of targeted killings in Punjab, the police claimed they confessed that they had opened fire at Arora.

Arora told HT that a team of NI Am et him on Friday .“In arrated the whole incident to them. I have also told the NIA that the police had given me third-degree torture to make me confess that the attack was planned by me. The police had lodged a case against me and pushed me behind the bars,” said Arora.

“I told the NIA officials that two motorcycle-borne men opened fire at me. Fortunately, the bullet only brushed my neck .”

He added that the Ludhiana police had claimed that he had injured himself with a piece of hot iron rod and booked him for cheating and furnishing false information.

COURTEXTENDS REMANDOFJOHAL

A local court of Khan na on Friday extended the police rem and of UK national J ag tar SinghJ oh al alias Jaggi, one of the accused of targeted killings in Punjab, for two days in the murder case of Shiv Se na leader Dur ga Pr as ad Gupta. The police also got the production warrants of Ramandeep and Shera in double murder case of Der a Sac ha Saud a followers. The court remanded them in three days’ police custody.

POLICE HAD CLAIMED THAT ARORA INJURED HIMSELF WITH A PIECE OF HOT IRON ROD AND BOOKED HIM FOR CHEATING