Chandigarh, Aug. 7 -- In a major security breach at Panjab University (PU) ahead of student body elections, five outsiders, including an associate of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, were found on campus on Wednesday evening. Police found them sitting in a car, with a Punjab registration number, near the law auditorium and took them into preventive detention.

The accused have been identified as Braham Dutt, 28, of Industrial Area Phase 1, who has seven FIRs registered against him, Vishal, 28, of Bapu Dham Colony, Sector 26, Vikash, 28, of Togan village, Mohali, Anand Yadav, 26, of Maloya, and Kshitij, 26, of Hallomajra.

As per the police, Dutt was one of the accused in a 2020 case where 17 shots were fired at liquor baron Arvind Singla's brot...