Bishnoi gang sharpshooter killed in Zirakpur encounter

MOHALI: Dreaded gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s sharpshooter Ankit Bhadu was shot dead in an encounter with police in a residential locality near Zirakpur on Thursday evening. “Gangster Ankit Bhadu was critically injured and succumbed to his injuries in a hospital,” said AIG of the Punjab Police’s organised crime control unit Gurmeet Singh Chauhan.

The gangster jumped from upper floor of the residential apartment in Peer Muchalla when a police team reached to arrest him. The gangster then took a family that included a sixyear-old girl as hostage. When was asked to surrender, he opened fire at the police party in which a cop was said to have sustained injury. The girl also sustained injury and had to be hospitalised. ››SEE HT CHANDIGARH