Firing at ex-mla’s vehicle: FSL team to carry out on-ground investigation today

As the mystery behind the bullet fired at the Innova vehicle of former Congress MLA-cum-president of the District Congress Committee, Ludhiana, Sanjay Talwar, is deepening and the Sarabha Nagar police are yet to reach to any logical conclusion in the case, the police have asked the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) to conduct an on-ground investigation and ferret out the truth how the bullet hit the Congress leader’s vehicle.

Notably, the police in the preliminary investigation had asserted that it was not a targeted attack by any unidentified miscreants. Instead, it was accidental firing that hit the car of the former MLA. However, the Talwar has not been agreeing to the theory of the police, citing that it was a targeted firing by some miscreants and the police should identify and arrest the culprits.

Police sources confirmed that to complete the investigation in all respects, the Ludhiana police have summoned the team of the FSL, Mohali, which would visit the spot on Tuesday. The team would scientifically and technically conduct a probe and explore various angles to reach a valid conclusion that how the bullet hit the former legislature’s car. The team would also clear whether it was a targeted attack on the vehicle or bullet hit it accidentally.

ADCP-3 Ramandeep Bhullar told The Tribune here on Monday that though the police probe found that it was an accidental firing as someone might have resorted to celebratory firing and the bullet hit the car, the angle in which bullet hit it reveals that the shot was fired in the air and while falling down, it hit the vehicle’s glass and fell on the rear seat. “Had the vehicle was the sole target, the bullet might have pierced into the rear seat or caused severe damage inside the SUV after breaking the glass but in this case, it only broke glass and did not cause any damage inside as seat with cushions were found intact and the bullet was lying there,” Bhullar said.

He said now, for the satisfaction of the complainant, the FSL team had been summoned and it would conduct a technical probe and it’s report would logically fill loopholes to reach a conclusion.

Notably, on October 12 morning, the Congress leader’s driver had noticed the damaged glass of the vehicle and raised the alarm.

.315 bore licenced weapons to be checked

ADCP Ramandeep Bhullar said the police were not denying firing as it had definitely occurred and the person who opened the fire would face legal action. Bhullar held that since the bullet was fired from a .315 bore weapon, the police were going to check all licensed weapons being possessed by the people in the area. In the Sarabha Nagar police jurisdiction, only two arms licence holders possess .315 bore weapons and during checking, one weapon was found lying in the police station’s malkhana while another one was in the possession of a weapon holder. Now, the police would check the weapon and also question the weapon holder, if

he used it for any celebratory firing and upon verification, action could be taken. Some other .315 bore licensed weapon holders would also be questioned and their weapon, if required, could be sent for forensic examination, the ADCP said.