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Man from Sangrur arrested for attack on VC Ahluwalia

By Sikh Siyasat Bureau

August 03, 2011

Sangrur/Fatehgarh Sahib (August 3, 2011): As per certain media reports two days after the attack on Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, Vice Chancellor of Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib the police arrested a 47-year-old Sangrur resident and recovered the weapon used in the crime. Ahluwalia was shot at at on August 1.

Police sources is reported to have identified the arrested as Jora Singh of Khanauri village. The latter reportedly confessed to the crime during interrogation by the CIA staff.

“He visited the university campus on July 28 for admission of a relative. He was upset over the attire of some girl students there. Also, he was not treated well by the VC who denied admission to his relative,” a source is reported to have said by “The Tribune”.

A well-reputed person, he ran a trust that helped fish out bodies of accident victims from the Bhakra canal. The CM had appreciated his work a few years back.