Chandra Shekhar, the fugitive Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) constable involved in the sensational shootout at prestigious lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (lBSNAA) at Mussoorie was arrested in Chandigarh on Sunday by the Punjab police. The Jawan was on a run after he opened indiscriminate fire on his colleagues on Friday in which one Sub Inspector was killed.
The Dehradun Senior Superintendent (SSP) of Police Pushpak Jyoti confirmed the arrest of Chandra Shekhar and told The Pioneer that a team of state police is on its way to Punjab to bring him back. When contacted the In charge of Sector 36 police station of Chandigarh Inspector Ram Dayal said that Chandra Shekhar was loitering in a park of the locality when at around 10.30 am a PCR of Punjab police tried to question him on which he attempted to run away. The Punjab Police Inspector said that the PCR team arrested him and on interrogation he revealed his identity. He revealed that the light Machine Gun (lMG) which Chandra Shekhar allegedly took with him after committing the crime could not be recovered from him at the time of arrest.
It is worth mentioning here that Constable Chandra Shekhar deployed on sentry duty at one of the gates of lBSAAA got enraged when one of his senior confiscated his mobile phone as the officer found that he was always engrossed in chatting over his phone. The officer, Sub Inspector Surendra lal suffered three bullets fired by Chandra Shekhar and died in spot while another Jawan Akhtar Hussain was injured in the shootout.