KHAIRA FACTION LEADER SHOT AT IN AMRITSAR
AMRITSAR : In an attack that the police suspect is a result of personal enmity, former chief of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s Amritsar City unit, Suresh Sharma, was injured after an unidentified assailant fired four shots at him, on Tuesday about 7pm. Sharma, a member of the political affairs committee of the AAP’s Sukhpal Singh Khaira faction, was attacked at his furniture shop at Partap Bazaar in Chheharta area of Amritsar. He was injured in his right leg.
“A man in his 20s, with his face covered, entered the shop and shouted for my father. He fired four shots, of which three hit my father on the leg. No one from the market tried to nab him, as he fled,” said Sajan Sharma, son of Suresh, adding that he was at his home at the time of the firing.
“I reached the shop to find my father lying in a pool of blood. With the help of other shopkeepers, I rushed him to a private hospital in Chheharta from where he was shifted to another private hospital in Amritsar,” Sajan added.
ADCP-City 1 Jagjit Singh Walia visited the hospital; while ADCP-City2 Lakhbir Singh Walia rushed to the crime scene and examined the CCTV footage installed in Partap Bazaar.
“Investigation suggests that there were two assailants.
One of them opened fire. The area of Chheharta has been cordoned off and an alert has been sounded in the city. We have clues,” Walia said, adding that prima facie the attack seemed to be a result of a personal grouse. A case has been registered under sections 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under sections 25-27-54-59 of the Arms Act against unidentified people.