Cop injured as gangster opens fire at police team

TARNTARAN: The district police on Friday evening held an alleged notorious gangster, Jaspal Singh aka Pala of Khadoor Sahib and his aide, whose identity is yet to be disclosed, from near the Harike Pattan police station. During the arrest operation, one policeman Shubhpal Singh also suffered two bullet injuries. He is undergoing treatment at Guru Nanak Dev hospital in Tarn Taran .

Sources said the crime investigation agency (CIA) wing of police received a tip-off that Pala, with his aide, was in the Naushehra Pannua area. Soon after knowing about Pala, the CIA wing launched an operation to arrest them.

The police started chasing the duo from Naushehra Pannua towards the Harike side. When the duo reached near the Harike police station, they tried to arrest them but one of them opened fire and Shubhpal Singh suffered injuries in his stomach and on his hand. Sources said Pala was also wanted by police. AMRITSAR:THIS is for the first time that Jallianwala Bagh will have 10 feet tall statue of Shaheed Udham Singh, a freedom fighter who took revenge of massacre carried out by the British government in 1919. Finally, a long pending demand of Shaheed Udham Singh Kamboj Sabha has been approved by the Centre and work for erecting the statue began on Friday in presence of the organisation leader Jarnail Singh Dhot and Bobby Kamboj. It is a ₹10 lakh project, said Dhot and the statue will be erected near the main entrance of garden with a brief history.