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.

On November 17, pro-Khalistan group Sher-e-Punjab Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder, accusing the RSS of “assimilating Sikhs into Hinduism in Punjab”. The police have not confirmed the authenticity of the claim.

The newspaper quoted Arora’s family as saying that despite several arrests in the matter, the police have not revealed the suspects’ motive behind the murder.

On Thursday, the Ferozepur Police said that the prime accused, identified as Badal, was taken to the Mamu Joya village by a police team when two of his accomplices, who were hiding at the spot, opened fire at them.

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