Overview
- Police identified the victim as Rachna Devi, the wife of retired assistant sub-inspector Sham Lal, and said a motorcycle-borne attacker opened fire around dawn.
- Officers said she was returning from Bhuri Walean Di Kutia in Mehandwani Gujran when shot, though one local report placed the attack at her home in Garhshankar.
- She was rushed toward a civil hospital and died en route, according to police accounts from the scene.
- Investigators are scanning area CCTV and have registered an FIR against unknown persons as the motive remains under inquiry with no gangster or terrorist angle emerging.
- The killing prompted Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal leaders to accuse the AAP government of failing on law and order a day after an AAP leader was slain in Jalandhar.