Ludhiana, April 20 -- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Sunil Kumar Neeta, a close associate of Punjab cabinet minister Tarunpreet Singh Sondh, and three others were attacked with swords near Lalheri road railway line in Khanna. The City 1 police station on Friday registered an attempt to murder case against five suspects, two of whom have been identified.

According to the complaint lodged by contractor Sanjeev Dutt, a resident of Jagat Colony, the attack occurred when five assailants arrived in a car and assaulted local shopkeeper Achhoota Nand, alias Sunil, over some old dispute. When Dutt, councillor Neeta and Gurmeet Singh, president of the shopkeepers' association, intervened, the attackers turned on them, brandishing swords.

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