Ferozepur, July 11 -- In a glaring flip-flop, Fazilka police have contradicted their own version of Tuesday's encounter near Abohar, now claiming that two suspects in the murder of businessman Sanjay Verma were not killed by police but by their own accomplices.

Just 48 hours earlier, senior police officers had publicly announced that Ram Rattan and Jaspreet Singh were gunned down in retaliatory police fire during a weapon recovery operation.

But in a complete U-turn, the FIR, made public on Thursday, states that the two men were shot dead by their unidentified accomplices who ambushed the police team.

On Tuesday, Ferozepur Range DIG Harmanbir Singh Gill and Fazilka SSP Gurmeet Singh, in a video statement, had said, "The two suspects, R...