Youth Akali leader Vikramjit Singh shot in broad daylight at Mohali

Tribune News Service

Mohali, August 7

Four unidentified assailants gunned down Youth Akali Dal leader Vikramjit Singh, alias Vicky Middukhera, in broad daylight at Mataur here today. The assailants fled the spot after the killing, which took place around 11.30 am.

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Hours later, in a Facebook post, gangster Davinder Bambiha’s group claimed responsibility for the killing. It said Middukhera had been working against the Lawrence Bishnoi gang despite several warnings.

Middukhera, 32, was targeted by two masked men, in their thirties, as he came out of a real estate agency’s office in the Sector 72 market. They opened fire as soon as he sat in his SUV in the parking lot.

Middukhera ran for safety towards a nearby park by scaling the boundary wall, but the assailants chased him down and pumped in nine bullets before fleeing the spot.

The CCTV footage showed four men in a car, bearing Punjab registration number, waiting in the parking lot before the incident. As Middukhera emerged from the office half an hour later, two men ran towards him and opened fire, suggesting it was a pre-planned attack.

Mohali SSP Satinder Singh said: “Nine rounds were fired at him. No arrest has been made so far.”