Ludhiana, July 23 -- A Ludhiana court has convicted two men for the 2021 Jagraon grain market shootout that claimed the lives of two police officers and left another policeman injured, while acquitting several co-accused of conspiracy and other charges due to lack of evidence.

Additional sessions judge Saru Mehta Kaushik delivered the verdict on July 14 in an FIR registered at City Jagraon police station. The case stemmed from the gun attack carried out on May 15, 2021, in New Grain Market, Jagraon, during an operation to intercept notorious gangsters Jaipal Bhullar and Jaspreet Singh alias Jassi Kharar, both of whom were later killed in a police encounter in Kolkata.

According to the prosecution, ASI Bhagwan Singh, ASI Dalwinderjit Sin...