A team of Ludhiana Crime Branch included two criminals near Phullanan Chowk here around 1.15 a.m. on Sunday at 1.15 a.m.
When the police tried to stop them in a naka, the criminals fired on them and tried to flee their scooters. As a retaliation, the police team also fired the criminals in which the duo suffered injuries in the legs.
The police confiscated illegal weapons, lived from them and brought them to the civil hospital.
Additional DCP, crimes, Amandep Singh Brar said that the Mels were identified as Gagandeep Singh Gaggu and Mandep Kumar Mithu. The duo had several cases in connection with drug smuggling and slopes against them. Recently they had grabbed a chain of women in the sixth sense near Aarti Chowk in Ludhiana.
The ADCP revealed that the Late Night surgery was led by the criminal police by Inspector Rajesh Kumar under the supervision of ACP, Crime, Rajesh Sharma.
Further investigations are underway.
