Amritsar, Feb. 28 -- The Punjab Police on Friday arrested the third accused for the February 22 murder of two policemen in Gurdaspur, even as calls for an independent probe into the alleged police encounter of another accused gathered momentum.

DIG (Border Range) Sandeep Goel confirmed the arrest of the third accused, identified as Inderjit Singh, a resident of Adhian village, where the cops - Gurnam Singh (ASI) and Ashok Kumar (Home Guard constable), were found shot dead at a police post on the morning of February 22.

Three days later, Ranjit Singh, 19, who was one of the three youths accused of the double murders, was killed in a police encounter near Puranashala village, about 8 km from Gurdaspur on the Gurdaspur-Mukerian road, on ea...