PATIALA: Five days after a national-level hockey player and his friend, both employed with the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL), were shot dead by unidentified persons following an argument over a trivial issue at a local Dabha in Partap Nagar area of Patiala, the Patiala police have identified the accused persons and sent out teams to nab them.
The accused has been identified as 20-year-old Manraj Singh Sarao, a military shotgun champion and his father Amandeep Singh, who had opened fire at Amrik Singh and Simranjit Singh on Wednesday night.
The deceased Amrik Singh son Gurjant Singh resident Majithia Enclave and Simranjit Singh Happy son of Darshan Singh resident Pratap Nagar, who were both working with the PSPCL were shot at from close range with a double-barrel gun at around 11 pm on Wednesday night. Amrik Singh was a national level player, who also played from the power corporation along with Simranjit Singh.
On Monday, Patiala senior superintendent of police MS Sidhu said the police investigators, who were initially groped in the dark while looking into the double murder case, picked up electronic and other evidence and finally managed to identify the two accused as Manraj Singh and his father Amandeep Singh.
Manraj had recently won a gold and a bronze medal at the Military Shotgun Championship. He was undergoing training at Patiala and was staying with his father Amandeep at a PG accommodation near Partap Nagar, where the murders took place.
He said Amandeep Singh, aged 45, who originally hails from Duggal village in Patran block of Patiala district was now living in Sector 66 Mohali. Manraj Singh, a known trapshooting champion owned a licensed 12 bore gun, which is now being believed was used to kill the two hockey players. The cop also learnt that Amandeep was having a marital dispute with his wife and they were living separately, while Manraj used to live with his father.
The SSP said after identifying the accused special police teams carried out raids at Mohali, Sangrur, Mansa to nab the accused as it was being suspected that they could be hiding at any of these places.
Initially, a case under Section 302 of the IPC and Sections 25/27/54/59 of the Arms Act was registered at the Civil Lines police station and unidentified persons and now the names of the father-son duo have been incorporated in the case, the SSP said.
The accused has been identified as 20-year-old Manraj Singh Sarao, a military shotgun champion and his father Amandeep Singh, who had opened fire at Amrik Singh and Simranjit Singh on Wednesday night.
The deceased Amrik Singh son Gurjant Singh resident Majithia Enclave and Simranjit Singh Happy son of Darshan Singh resident Pratap Nagar, who were both working with the PSPCL were shot at from close range with a double-barrel gun at around 11 pm on Wednesday night. Amrik Singh was a national level player, who also played from the power corporation along with Simranjit Singh.
On Monday, Patiala senior superintendent of police MS Sidhu said the police investigators, who were initially groped in the dark while looking into the double murder case, picked up electronic and other evidence and finally managed to identify the two accused as Manraj Singh and his father Amandeep Singh.
Manraj had recently won a gold and a bronze medal at the Military Shotgun Championship. He was undergoing training at Patiala and was staying with his father Amandeep at a PG accommodation near Partap Nagar, where the murders took place.
He said Amandeep Singh, aged 45, who originally hails from Duggal village in Patran block of Patiala district was now living in Sector 66 Mohali. Manraj Singh, a known trapshooting champion owned a licensed 12 bore gun, which is now being believed was used to kill the two hockey players. The cop also learnt that Amandeep was having a marital dispute with his wife and they were living separately, while Manraj used to live with his father.
The SSP said after identifying the accused special police teams carried out raids at Mohali, Sangrur, Mansa to nab the accused as it was being suspected that they could be hiding at any of these places.
Initially, a case under Section 302 of the IPC and Sections 25/27/54/59 of the Arms Act was registered at the Civil Lines police station and unidentified persons and now the names of the father-son duo have been incorporated in the case, the SSP said.
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