Overview
- Police said 27-year-old Jugaad Singh, a national-level para shooter and law student, was arrested a day after the fatal shooting near Talwara village.
- The victim, 25-year-old Rajveer Singh Khaira, an MBA student at Panjab University Regional Centre in Ludhiana, suffered an abdominal gunshot wound and died at DMCH.
- Officers said the weapon was a legally owned firearm not meant for sporting use, and it has been seized.
- An FIR citing murder under Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Sections 25 and 27 of the Arms Act was registered at the PAU police station on the statement of the victim’s father.
- Police described the two men as close friends and said they are examining whether the firing was accidental or deliberate, with the motive still undetermined.