It was unclear if the man was hit when his accomplices opened fire at the police or by the personnel’s retaliatory shots.
The Punjab Police has said that the prime accused in the murder of a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member was killed in a gunfight on Thursday, The Indian Express reported.
The gunfight took place in a village in Fazilka district, where the police took the man to recover a weapon.
Naveen Arora, the son of RSS leader Baldev Raj Arora, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants at about 7 pm on November 15 when he was walking home from his shop. The attackers reportedly fired at him from point-blank range.
He was taken to the hospital, where the doctors declared that he had been brought dead.
