A person was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne miscreants at Sector 38 (West) here on Monday night.

The victim has been identified as Surjit Singh, a resident of Sector 38 (west) here. Surjit was doing a business of finance in Sector 22 mobile market and also, provided bouncers to various clubs in the tricity. He was returning home when the incident happened. The two miscreants shot him multiple times at the traffic lights point just a km away from his residence.

A senior police officer said that the incident seems to be fallout of some old rivalry. Surjit was known to provide bouncers in tricity and had rivalries from the competitors. Previously, he had major fights with those in same profession over the business outreach and share in this market. He was also named accused in famous Meet murder case of Panchkula but was not arrested and was given clean chit after investigation, police said.

Notably, in 2017, a former bouncer, Amit Sharma, alias Meet, was gunned down in broad daylight near Shiv temple in Saketri, Panchkula.

Soon after Surjit Singh’s murder, a Facebook post appeared in which one person named Davinder along with eight others mentioned, claimed that one lucky has taken revenge of their brother Meet and by doing this he has paid his tribute towards their friendship. Davinder was head of a gang and died in an encounter, but his FB page is still being handled by someone.

The police officer said that we are looking into FB post along with checking the trail of this post, exploring all other angles like any recent tussle of Surjit with his clients in finance field, his claims of dues from the big debtors, his recent failed contracts with hired bouncers, rivalry among any new entrants into his business fields.

A case under Sections 302 (punishment for murder), 34 (criminal acts done by several persons in furtherance of Common intention) IPC and 25/27/54/59 Arms Act has been registered against unknown persons and the investigation is on, the officer said.