Chandigarh, June 21 -- A week after a cashier at a chemist shop in Sector 11 was shot dead in broad daylight, Chandigarh police on Saturday claimed to have foiled another major criminal strike by arresting three associates of the Goldy Dhillon gang who were allegedly on their way into the city to execute a fresh hit.

The accused, Happy Chib, 20, Rahul Kumar, 24, and Vansh Sharma, 19 - all residents of Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district, were arrested while trying to enter Chandigarh from Mullanpur. Police recovered a foreign-made C47 9mm pistol, a .32-bore pistol and nine live cartridges from their possession.

According to police, the trio had travelled from Jammu with the accused in the cashier murder case. After reaching Punjab, they ...