Chandigarh: The UT police have recovered a motorcycle robbed at gunpoint from a couple near Sector 38 dumping ground on WednesdayThe police, however, failed to make any arrest in the case even after 24 hours have passed since the firing incident at Panjab University (PU). On Tuesday evening, four assailants had fired two bullets at Jashandeep Singh Jawandha, a student leader of SOPU party on PU campus. He managed to escape unhurt in the incident. He has not given his statement to the police yet. Meanwhile, the Sector 11 police have registered two separate FIRs in the case. One FIR has been registered on the statement of Sub-Inspector (SI) Neeraj Kumar under the Arms Act regarding firing two bullets on PU campus. However, the second FIR has been registered on the statement of Govind of Khuda Lahora village for robbing him of his Bullet motorcycle at gunpoint.The two gunmen had arrived on a scooter around 5.45pm on Tuesday when Jawandha was standing in the parking lot near PU’s botany department and didn’t seem to have noticed the two men approaching him. One of them suddenly pulled out a pistol from his bag and fired two shots at Jawandha. Both missed.While Jawandha fled for his life, the two assailants jumped back on their scooter and sped off. They may have been confused or weren’t aware of the university’s layout and ended up at the rear of the Radha Krishan temple on campus with no way to drive out.Desperate to find an escape route, they dumped the scooter and sprinted into the temple, but the priest checked them for not taking off their shoes. Furious, they pulled a gun on him and threatened to shoot him, but went back out.At a nearby private school, they waylaid a couple at gunpoint, grabbed their motorcycle and sped off. The owner of the bike immediately informed the police control room. It was only when a police team arrived that they learnt of the shooting on campus.Dalbir Singh Bhinder, DSP (central division); Sector 11 SHO Japal Singh Bhullar and crime branch officers rushed to the scene, along with forensic teams. After checking the CCTV footage, theb police suspect there may have been four suspects. The police have seized the scooter and found fake number plates on it.
