Sarpanch of Happowal village in Banga was shot at by unidentified bike-borne youths this afternoon while he was working in the fields.

Having a good built, Sarpanch Gurinder Singh (32) (more popularly called Pahalwan owing to his passion for wrestling) was preparing his fields for sowing potatoes when two motorcylists went near him in his fields on the Banga-Katarian road and fired three shots. There were labourers too helping him in the fields who said the bikers missed two shots and the third one hit Gurinder in his abdomen.

Since the sarpanch too was carrying his licensed weapon, he too fired back several retaliatory shots but the assailants escaped. After they fled, he fell in his fields. The labourers, with the help of some passersby, rushed Gurinder Singh to Guru Nanak Mission Hosp

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