India, March 19 -- In a joint operation, the Punjab Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) and Haryana Special Task Force (STF) on Thursday arrested the two shooters involved in the March 18 murder of property dealer Charanpreet Singh in Chandigarh following an encounter in Kaithal.

The suspects, identified as Rajan, alias Piyush Pehalwan, of Ferozepur and Pritam Shah of Nawanshahr, opened fire on the police teams when they were intercepted in Haryana's Kaithal on Thursday. In the retaliatory exchange, both accused sustained injuries and were shifted to a hospital.

The AGTF had launched 'Ops Silent Trigger' after the brazen daylight shooting in the high-security Sector 9 of Chandigarh to unmask the module, which is linked to fugitive gangster ...