Ludhiana police arrests two Bihar-based sharpshooters

News Desk: Two Bihar-based sharpshooters – Sujit Kumar Rai of Samastipur district and Roshan Kumar Yadav of Vaishali district – were arrested by Ludhiana Police and West Bengal CID from Punjab for their participation in the assassination of Manish Shukla in Barrackpore’s Titagarh on October 4 2020. They were brought to Kolkata and produced before the ACJM Barrackpore on Friday. Sources say that they were part of actual shooters involved in the murder of Shukla.

Earlier the West Bengal CID took over the ‘Manish Shukla Murder Case’ from Barrackpore Commissiomerate and made three arrests in connection with the murder case. The BJP leader was shot dead in Barrackpore’s Titagarh on October 4 by unknown gunmen when he was standing in front of the Titagarh Police Station. He was taken to the hospital but was declared dead.