Shimla, March 15 -- A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been formed to investigate the Bilaspur shootout case in which former Congress MLA Bumber Thakur sustained injuries.

According to the Chief Minister's Office, the team will be led by the Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Central Range, and will be supervised by Additional Director General (ADG) Gyaneshwar Singh.

Unidentified assailants shot at former Congress MLA Bumber Thakur at his residence in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur, police said on Friday. Two other people, including his bodyguard, were reportedly injured in the attack.

Bumber Thakur, who was hospitalised after being shot at his home in Bilaspur on the day of Holi, said that it was the handiwork of "drug traffickers."

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