Notorious criminals kill 28-yr-old man after spat

Ludhiana: A group of assailants, including two notorious criminals, fatally attacked a 28-year-old man at Bhamian area of Jamalpur on Friday night. The accused also attacked the victim’s friend, who is admitted in hospital.
The deceased has been identified as Paras Kumar, 28, a resident of PHB colony, Moti Nagar. He worked as a collection agent with Sandeep Singh, a financier. Sandeep said he was the main target of the gang members, who had also threatened to kill him recently but Paras turned out to be a soft target.
Jamalpur police registered an FIR against the accused identified as Ajay Pandit, his brother Rajan Pandit, Vishal Sood, Simran Sood, Chandni Bharti, Sumit Khanna, Sachin Bhatij, Deepu, Sankit, Sagar and their three unidentified accomplices under sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 506 (criminal intimidation), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapons), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) and 120-B (Criminal intimidation) of the IPC.
In her police complaint, Paras’s wife Shivani, 28, who is pregnant, said that on October 10, Paras accompanied Sandeep and his two friends, Neeraj and Nihal to the Ludhiana court complex, where the accused Rajan Pandit, Chotu Jawaddi and others engaged in a spat with them. She said that a full blown fight was prevented by the intervention of onlookers and cops. However, she said that Paras told her about being threatened by Rajan, through his brother Ajay Pandit.
Shivani added that on Friday night at around 9pm, Paras and his friend Abhishek Avi were travelling on a scooter when they were attacked by at least 13 persons on motorcycles and scooters. She said that Paras’s friend Sandeep, Gurwinder Prinkle and Karan Narang reached the spot and Paras to hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
Paras’s friend Sandeep said, “Ajay Pandit and Rajan Pandit have an old rivalry with me. I was their target however they found Paras alone and assaulted him as he stood by my side during the court complex spat.”
Ajay Pandit has several criminal cases of extortion, loot, murder bid and firing registered against him. Recently, his brother Rajan, who was booked in the Tibba road firing case of April 12, in which two men suffered bullet injuries, had applied for anticipatory bail. It was dismissed by a local court. He has not been arrested since.