Bathinda, March 14 -- Six people have been arrested after an encounter broke out between miscreants and Punjab police in the Bhucho Mandi area of the Bathinda district, officials said on Friday.

Bathinda Superintendent of Police (SP) Narinder Singh said that one of the "miscreants", Satwant Singh, fired at the police with an AK-47, which was stolen by another accused named Sunil, who serves in the army. This happened after the police received information about the miscreants spotted in the Bhucho Mandi area.

"Two miscreants, Sunil and Gurdeep, are serving in the army, and Sunil has stolen an AK-47 rifle from the army. Action is being taken against him. The army personnel are deployed in Jammu in a unit, which we can't disclose," SP Sing...