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RSS leader Ravinder Gosain shot dead in Ludhiana

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October 17, 2017

Ludhiana, Oct 17: A Ludhiana-based RSS leader Ravinder Gosain (60) was shot dead outside his house in Gagandeep Colony of Jodhewal area on Tuesday morning. The leader was pumped two bullets by motorcycle borne two masked assailants, in head and back and he died on spot.

The deceased was the head of Mohan Shikha located in Amantran colony of Jodhewal. On Tuesday Gosain returned from Shakha around 7am and was sitting outside his house with two grandchildren when he was gunned down.

The CCTV installed near the location has captured the assailants roaming around the area since 6:30am. They have also been captured fleeing after the incident in another CCTV. The assailants were on Honda Stunner bike of black-yellow color.

Gosain was associated with RSS since childhood and was an active member of Shakha.

The zonal General Secretary RSS, Yash Giri said, "This is the failure of police administration as earlier also the police have been failed to cracker previous cases of attacks on religious leaders."

He added, "I have received a call from the Finance minister Arun Jaitley and he asked about the incident. All senior leaders are in touch with us."

The district president of BJP, Ravinder Arora said, "To agitate against the failure of police the RSS and BJP leaders will protest outside the office of Commissioner of police, after cremation."

The Commissioner of police, RN Dhoke said, "The police are exploring all angles in the case."

The Ludhiana police have also released the pictures of suspects, captured in CCTVs, on social media with contact numbers.

The kin of deceased are clueless about the reason behind the killing as according to them Ravinder Gosain had never received any threat.

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March 28,2020

Hyderabad, Mar 28: Seven labourers from Karnataka were killed and four injured when the van in which they were travelling was hit by a truck near Pedda Golconda on the outskirts of the city late on Friday night, police said.

The deceased included two children. Of the 31 workers in the van, five died on the spot and two while undergoing treatment at a hospital, Assistant Commissioner of Traffic Vishwa Prasad said.
Four others were hospitalised and the condition of one of them is critical, he said, adding the other workers in the van escaped with minor injuries.

The workers were on their way back to their home town Raichur in Karnataka as the road project they were working in at Suryapet here was stalled due to the lockdown, Prasad said.

He said initital investigations revealed that the mango laden truck, which was on its way to Gujarat, was overspeeding.

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May 19,2020

Bareilly (UP), May 19: Samajwadi leader Chhotelal Diwakar and his son, Sunil Diwakar, were shot dead in broad daylight in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. The entire incident was caught on camera.

The murder was apparently a fallout of a dispute over laying of a road under MGNREGA.

Chhotelal Diwakar had contested the 2017 assembly elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket.

Superintendent of Police, (SP), Sambhal, Yamuna Prasad, said, "Some work was being carried out under MGNREGA due to which some dispute happened. Two people have been shot dead. We will reach the spot of the incident to find more details."

According to his family members, Diwakar and his son had gone for a walk in the fields when the assailants came on a motorbike and after a brief altercation, shot them dead. They fled on foot, leaving their motorbike behind.

A large number of SP workers reached the village soon after the news of the double murder spread.

SP Yamuna Prasad who reached the spot that falls under Behjoi police station, soon after the murders, said that a manhunt has been launched for the assailants. He said that further investigations were underway and the bodies have been sent for post mortem.

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June 26,2020

Kozhikode, Jun 26: A man, who had returned from Bahrain on Thursday and has been under quarantine at his house in Villyapallai near here, has been stabbed on his arm by an unidentified person.

Police sources said the assailant, with a masked face, had ransacked the man's house by break-opening the door at midnight lat night and stabbed Lijeesh on his arm and fled from the scene.

The nearby residents took Lijeesh to a nearby hospital and was put back on quarantine. 

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