Murder bid case: Two Youth Congress men, aide surrender

LUDHIANA: Two Congress office-bearers and their accomplice have surrendered before police in an attempt to murder case.
Youth Congress presidents from central and east constituencies, Shubham Arora and Ankit Pandit, and their aide Rishav Nannu gave in at Moti Nagar police station on Saturday night.
Around 10.30pm on February 11, the trio, along with Sandeep of Bhamiya Road and seven others, had allegedly barged into an eating joint near Cheema Chowk and attacked Puneet Bains, 27, a resident of Labour Colony, with baseball bats over an old rivalry.
Moti Nagar police station assistant sub-inspector Ranjeet Singh said, “Three of the accused have been arrested, while others are on the run. We could not recover the cellphones of accused and baseball bats used in the crime. For, the accused had thrown those in Satluj river after carrying out the attack.”
Sources said, “In their statement to the police, the trio said that Bains had been issuing threats to kill their associate, Shubham.”
Additional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP-IV) Ajinder Singh said, “We are verifying the allegations against Bains, who is under treatment at Christian Medical College and Hospital.