Contract killer held after gun battle

Meerut | Saturday | 16th February, 2019

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One is still on the run.Soon after getting a tip-off about the contract, police swung into action on Friday. Muzaffarnagar: A day after a Muzaffarnagar jail prisoner allegedly gave a contract to a five-member gang to eliminate a village pradhan, one more shooter was arrested following an encounter in the early hours of Saturday. While three of the occupants were arrested two, Shahnawaz and Shubham, managed to slip away.According to police, undertrial Shahnazar through his cousin Shahnawaz had given a Rs 2-lakh contract to kill Dadheru village pradhan, Asif. Identified as Shubham, he sustained a bullet injury in the leg. In the cross fire a constable sustained a bullet injury and one of the culprits, Shubham, a contract killer , was also injured.Senior superintendent of police, Muzaffarnagar, Sudhir Kumar said, “Now we are trying to find two more people, Shameem and Shahnawaz..