FLEXING MUSCLES FOR LIVELIHOOD
The police on Wednesday arrested Sewak, alias Guri, 25, resident of Shivalik Vihar, Zirakpur, as the prime suspect in the firing at the Sector 33 bungalow of hotelier and businessman Rakesh Singla because of his rivalry with his younger brother, liquor baron Arvind Singla. As many as 17 shots we fired from two .30 and .32 bore weapons.
Police said Sewak ran a gym in Zirakpur and had been working for jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi for the past two years. He aided the gangster by supplying vehicles.
Sewak was arrested from the traffic lights near DT Mall at
Chandigarh IT Park. A countrymade pistol and eight live cartridges, besides a Hyundai Creta, bearing a Mohali registration number and used as a getaway vehicle by Sewak after the firing, was recovered from him.
Police said he will be produced before the court on Thursday for his remand, following which he will be interrogated about his accomplices and the motive behind the crime.
Sewak’s arrest came on the statement of Gurdeep Singh, alias Babbu, hailing from Banur, Punjab.
“The accused had borrowed Gurdeep’s Ford Ikon, which he used in the crime. The car was captured in the CCTV cameras, which led us to Gurdeep and then to Sewak. The vehicle has been recovered,” said a police official, privy to the case.
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