Days after Punjabi singer Parmish Verma and his friend were shot at by unidentified assailants in Mohali, the Punjab Police on Sunday made one arrest in the case from Solan, in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh.
The arrested person is identified as Kulwinder Singh from Baddi’s Gullerwala village.
Verma, who shot to fame with his song ‘Gaal Ni Kadni’, was shot at while he was with his friend Kulwant Singh Chahal in Mohali on Friday night. Verma is currently undergoing treatment at Fortis Hospital after a bullet hit him in his leg.
A local gangster Dilpreet Singh “Baba” claimed to have attacked the singer in his Facebook post maintaining that the singer was lucky to have escaped with his life. His FB status shows a picture of him holding a gun alongside Verma’s picture with a cross drawn across it.
Dilpreet is accused of shooting a sarpanch in broad daylight in Chandigarh last year.
The police said that Verma, along with his friend and two bodyguards, left for his flat in Mohali’s Sector 91 in a black Toyota Fortuner after performing at a club in Chandigarh around 11.45 pm, and on his way he dropped his bodyguards in Sector-70.
About five unidentified men followed them from Chandigarh before intercepting them at a T-point on Chappar Chiri road in Sector 74 at 12.30 am, and attacked the two. While one bullet hit Verma, who was driving the car, another hit Kulwant, who was seated beside him, on the leg.
Verma informed the SSP, who reached the spot in about 15 minutes, and took the victims to Fortis Hospital.
The police had recovered six empty shells, including one of .315 bore, from the spot.