{"id":311054,"date":"2019-04-06T05:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311054"},"modified":"2019-04-06T05:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:15:37","slug":"punjab-shiv-sena-leader-shot-dead-in-gurdaspur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-shiv-sena-leader-shot-dead-in-gurdaspur\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab: Shiv Sena leader shot dead in Gurdaspur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304927 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gun-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Gun-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Gun.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A leader belonging to Shiv Sena was allegedly shot dead by three people in Punjab\u2019s Gurdaspur on Friday evening. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ajay Thakur 25 was shot dead when he was about to board a bus from near the bus stand in Purana Shalla area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Three youths, who have been identified, came on a motorcycle and one of them pulled out a gun and shot Thakur dead from point blank range.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thakur was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, the police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SSP Swarandeep Singh said, \u201cpreliminary investigations revealed that the accused\u00a0had a dispute with Thakur over some issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh further said, \u201cthe three accused will be arrested soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A case has been registered and an investigation into the matter is going on, the SSP added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leader belonging to Shiv Sena was allegedly shot dead by three people in Punjab\u2019s Gurdaspur on Friday evening. \u00a0 Ajay Thakur 25 was shot dead when he was about to board a bus from near the bus stand in Purana Shalla area. Three youths, who have been identified, came on a motorcycle and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[11230,9831,513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311055,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311054\/revisions\/311055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}