AMRITSAR, Nov. 25 -- A man wanted for the murder of a shopkeeper in Dhoolka village, Amritsar district, was killed in an encounter with the Punjab Police on Monday. The deceased was identified as Raja Singh, alias Billa, a resident of Cheema Kalan in Tarn Taran district, officials said.

Two unidentified shooters had entered a shop in the village Dhookla on November 16 and shot dead its owner, Manjeet Singh, for failing to pay extortion money. The accused was wanted in an FIR registered under Sections 103, 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Section 25-54-59 of the Arms Act at the police station, Khilchian.

DIG (border range) Sandeep Goel said senior superintendent of police (Amritsar rural) Suhail Mir led a team from Ajnala po...