{"id":255329,"date":"2022-11-04T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=255329"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:56:00","slug":"hindu-right-wing-leader-sudhir-suri-shot-dead-on-amritsar-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/11\/04\/hindu-right-wing-leader-sudhir-suri-shot-dead-on-amritsar-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Right Wing Leader Sudhir Suri Shot Dead On Amritsar Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"Shiv Sena Leader Shot Dead During Protest In Amritsar\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Shiv Sena Leader Shot Dead During Protest In Amritsar\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Shiv Sena Leader Shot Dead During Protest In Amritsar\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-11\/rg5dmk3o_sudhir-suri-just-before-he-was-shot-in-amritsar_625x300_04_November_22.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-11-04T16:58:09+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=663969&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/04112022_n_SudhirSuriShot_4pm_126359_99630_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T3M19S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-11\/rg5dmk3o_sudhir-suri-just-before-he-was-shot-in-amritsar_625x300_04_November_22.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=663969&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Sudhir Suri just before he was shot in Amritsar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Amritsar: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sudhir Suri, a Hindutva right wing leader, was shot dead in Amritsar this afternoon. Leader of a local outfit that uses the name Shiv Sena, Mr Suri was holding protest outside a temple over a management dispute when at least five shots were fired from a pistol, allegedly by a local shopkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>He had police protection but the attacker was successful in landing at least two shots that killed him before he could be brought to a hospital, BBC reported.\u00a0The lone attacker, Sandeep Singh, was arrested immediately and the pistol seized, said the local police commissioner, who did not give more details yet.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the attacker had come to the place with three others in an SUV but they escaped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The police chief appealed to the people to keep calm and not give in to any communal calls as tense messages were being exchanged among residents of the Sikh holy city.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Mr Suri, who is known for his fiery and allegedly communal speeches on social media, had got into an argument with some men from the temple management, it is learnt.<\/p>\n<p>At the time that he was shot, he was on a dharna on the street, sitting next to an associate who was seen firing back at the attacker from a revolver.<\/p>\n<p>The killing, which comes just months after the murder, in May,\u00a0of another prominent person with police security \u2014 singer Sidhu Moosewala \u2014 raising questions over law and order under Bhagwant Mann&#8217;s Aam Aadmi Party that came to power in March.<\/p>\n<p>Sudhi Suri&#8217;s murder also brings back memories of a series of killings of right-wing or religious leaders, most of them from Hinduva outfits, in 2016 and 2017, when the Akali Dal-BJP and the Congress were in power at different times.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2017, Ludhiana\u00a0RSS leader Ravinder Gosain, 60, was shot dead by two\u00a0motorcycle-borne men. This was the\u00a0eighth such incident in the state in about a year&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2017, Christian pastor Sultan Masih was shot dead, again by two motorcycle-borne men in Ludhiana.<\/p>\n<p>Others killed in that series of attacks were Dera Sacha Sauda followers in Ludhiana,\u00a0a leader of an organisation called \u2018Hindu Takhat&#8217;, also in Ludhiana, RSS leader Brigadier Jagdish Gagneja (Retd) in Jalandhar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/shiv-sena-leader-sudhir-suri-shot-dead-in-amritsar-3490229\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Sudhir Suri just before he was shot in Amritsar. Amritsar: Sudhir Suri, a Hindutva right wing leader, was shot dead in Amritsar this afternoon. Leader of a local outfit that uses the name Shiv Sena, Mr Suri was holding protest outside a temple over a management dispute when at least five shots were fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6206,305400,305399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}