Amritsar, Jan. 9 -- The Amritsar Commissionerate Police averted a planned targeted killing and extortion attempt in the city by busting an organised criminal module linked to gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria.

A Bihar man was among the five accused arrested with a cache of illegal weapons and vehicles in a major operation based on precise intelligence, said commissioner of police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar on Thursday.

According to police, accused Aditya Raj, hailing from Nalanda in Bihar, was hired by the gangsters to execute a targeted killing. The gang had deliberately used an out-of-state associate to evade law enforcement.

Aditya Raj is directly linked to gangsters Jaggu Bhagwanpuria and Keshav Shivala, and was executing criminal activities...