Ludhiana, Nov. 10 -- A masked scooter-borne assailant fired six rounds at a journalist couple - Navneet Kaur and Gagandeep Arora - before chasing their car for nearly a kilometre on the eve of Diwali. The attacker again opened fire near Nanaksar Gurdwara before fleeing towards Sat Paul Mittal Road, popularly known as Malhar Road. Both scribes escaped unhurt.

Navneet Kaur is the director of a web channel, while her husband, Gagandeep Arora, is working with a vernacular daily. Navneet Kaur said she had been receiving threatening calls from different international numbers for nearly a month for her reports against gangsters. She had already submitted written complaints to the ADGP (security) and ADGP (intelligence), seeking police intervent...