Panchkula, Oct. 13 -- Two suspected gang-linked shooters were injured in an exchange of fire with police near Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula late Monday night, after allegedly firing five rounds at a police team, one of which struck a sub-inspector's bulletproof jacket while another narrowly missed an assistant sub-inspector, police said.
The suspects, identified as Arshdeep Singh and Jagraj Singh, both residents of Punjab's Amritsar district, sustained bullet injuries to their legs when police returned fire. Investigators suspect the two had arrived in the Chandigarh-Mohali-Panchkula region to carry out a targeted attack.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), the encounter took place on a road behind Tau Devi Lal Stadium in...