Chandigarh: The operation cell of Chandigarh Police claimed to have solved the Panjab University shootout case with the arrest of four persons, including the shooters. Police said the accused were also involved in two murders and a firing incident in different parts of Punjab. Police claimed to have seized three sophisticated pistols and 16 bullets from the accused — Gaurav alias Gola, Aryan, Rajat alias Gudda of Amritsar, and Ravi Nijjar alias Kali, a resident of Sirsa, Haryana.An operation cell team led by inspector Harinder Singh Sekhon arrested Aryan, an associate of gangsters Shaganpreet and Doni Bal, near a nightclub in Sector 26. An automatic pistol and four bullets were recovered from him. Later, police arrested Ravi Nijjar, Gaurav and Rajat and recovered two more pistols and 12 bullets.According to police, the accused had planned to open fire at three nightclub owners and a city-based real estate businessman to extort money.Police said the accused were carrying out murders and firing on the directions of foreign-based handlers Doni Bal and his associate Shaganpreet for just Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000. The accused were allegedly drug addicts, who took to crime to procure drugs.The accused revealed that Shaganpreet was in direct contact with them through encrypted social media applications.Police said the accused were involved in the firing incident at Panjab University, where unidentified assailants opened fire at SOPU student leader Jashanpreet Singh Jawanda at the Botany department parking lot. The attackers fled after snatching a motorcycle at gunpoint from a passerby near PU.The Bambiha gang claimed responsibility for the attack in March.Police said that on March 17, Aryan, Gaurav and Rajat went to PU to kill Jashanpreet Singh Jawanda on the directions of Doni Bal and Shaganpreet.Box: Other cases they were involved inInterrogation of Gaurav revealed that he, along with Aryan and Sonu alias Shanga, conducted a recce of a commission agent’s shop in Khanna on the directions of gangster ShaganpreetGaurav and Sonu opened fire at the shop on March 25Police said Gaurav and others shot dead Gurpreet Singh ‘Gopi’ Nijjar, a key witness in the 2015 murder of gangster Sukha Kahlwan, on May 1, 2026The accused also revealed that on March 25, 2025, Rajat, Aryan and Bobby shot dead Class XII student Amarjot Singh in AmritsarAccused Bobby had provided the automatic pistol and ammunition to the shooters
