Attack on RSS leader: Punjab transfers case to CBI

Chandigarh, Aug 24 (PTI) The Punjab government tonightdecided to transfer the case of murderous attack on RSS leaderBrigadier (retd) Jagdish Kumar Gagneja to CBI. "The government has decided to transfer the investigationinto the murderous attack on RSS vice president Brig (retd)Jagdish Kumar Gagneja to the CBI in order to nab the allegedperpetrators and their anti-national co-conspirators residingin foreign countries," an official spokesman said here. Senior RSS leader Gagneja was shot at and criticallywounded by some unidentified motocycle-borne assailants inJyoti Chowk area in Jalandhar on August 6. He was latershifted to a hospital in Ludhiana where he is undergoingtreatment. The decision to this effect was taken in view of the needfor a strong inter-agency approach to bring the accused aswell as their foreign co-conspirators to book, thespokesperson said. Earlier, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of PunjabPolice, headed by Director of Bureau of Investigations IPSSahota, was probing the case. Punjab Police had registered a case under relevantsections of IPC and Arms Act in Jalandhar on August 6 inconnection with the incident. PTI VJ SMJ SKSMJ