NIA team meets family members of slain RSS leader

Press Trust of India  |  Ludhiana 

A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team today the family members of leader Ravinder Gosain who was shot dead last month.

The probe agency led by Inspector General G P Singh also visited the crime spot where Gosain was killed, a police official said here.


The leader was shot dead on October 17 by two motorcycle-borne persons near his house in Gaganjit colony.

Later, the handed over the probe to the NIA.

This month, the state police had claimed to have achieved a major success in solving several targeted killing cases including that of Gosain with the arrest of five persons.

They were accused of killing people under a conspiracy to fan communal violence in the state.

The arrested included Jimmy Singh, Jagtar Singh Jaggi, shooters Singh Shera and Ramandeep Singh.

Jimmy was produced in a local in another case and was remanded to one-day police custody.

Commissioner of Police R N Dhoke said that a police team left for Moga to bring Ramandeep and Shera here for further investigation.

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First Published: Sat, November 18 2017. 21:13 IST