Chandigarh, May 2 -- A 25-year-old youth was shot dead late at night by cattle smugglers near Tundla in the Panjokhara police station area of Ambala. The victim, identified as Gurpreet Singh, alias Happy, a resident of Garnala, was returning home from work on a motorcycle with his friend Nakshatra Singh at approximately 2:00 am.
The assailants, who were reportedly being pursued by the police, opened fire on the two men after mistaking them for police personnel stationed at a checkpoint in the dark.
The incident occurred near Tundla turn on Topkhana Road when the victims' motorcycle encountered a pickup truck carrying the smugglers.
Panic-stricken by the belief that they were surrounded, the smugglers fired indiscriminately using country-...