Kolkata, Oct 31 (UNI) Two sharpshooters, the residents of Bihar,
accused of shooting down BJP leader Manish Shukla in West Bengal's
North 24 Parganas
district on October 8, have been arrested in Ludhiana, media report
said on Saturday.
The duo, who was arrested during committing a dacoity in Punjab, was
brought here on transit remand by the CID officials.
Former Titagarh Municipality Councillor and influential BJP leader
Manish Shukla was gunned down by four motor-cycle borne gunmen in
front of his
party office on Sunday evening on October 8.
The officials of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is
probing the ghastly political murder in the industrial Titagarh belt, said
the
suepects after committing crime fled to Bihar and then went to Ludhiana for
another criminal act.
The suspects and a third man were overpowered by the security
personnel and police at Ludhiana while committing a robbery in a
gold loan bank this week.
With the latest arrest the CID has so far rounded up six accused persons
in the 39-year-old BJP leader murder.
UNI PC KK