<p>Amritsar: A day after an NRI was shot at inside his house here, police on Sunday arrested five people, including the father of the victim's first wife, in connection with the incident.</p>.<p>Efforts are being made to nab the two criminals who shot at Sukhchain Singh, who recently returned from the US, and are on the run, they said.</p>.<p>The assailants intercepted Sukhchain Singh when he was leaving his house in Daburji village on the outskirts of the city here for a morning walk on Saturday.</p>.<p>They barged into his house and fired three shots at him before fleeing. Two of the bullets hit Sukhchain Singh -- one in the head and the other near the chest. He is stated to be out of danger, according to police.</p>.NRI shot at by armed assailants in front of wife and kids at his Amritsar home.<p>Addressing the media here, Amritsar Police Commissioner Ranjit Singh Dhillon said the attack on Sukhchain Singh was carried out at the behest of the family of his first wife.</p>.<p>His first wife had committed suicide in December 2022 and her family nursed a grudge against him, he said.</p>.<p>Two criminals, Sukhwinder alias Sukha and Gurkirat Singh alias Guri, were hired to kill Sukhchain Singh, police said.</p>.<p>"We are after the assailants," Dhillon said.</p>.<p>Those arrested are Sarwan Singh, the father of Sukhchain Singh's first wife and a resident of Bains village in Hoshiarpur; Jagjit Singh and Chamkaur Singh of Tarn Taran who helped the assailants before committing the crime; hotel owner Digambar Attri and hotel manager Abhilash Bhaskar who provided accommodation to the assailants without asking for ID proofs, the officer said.</p>.<p>The assailants stayed in Attri's hotel before and after committing the crime, according to police.</p>.<p>Dhillon said police have also booked US-based Sukhwinder Singh, Kuljinder Kaur and her husband Jasvir Singh.</p>.<p>Sukhwinder Singh and Kuljinder Kaur are the brother and sister of Sukhchain Singh's first wife respectively.</p>.<p>Sukhchain Singh was shot at in front of his wife, mother and his two children from his first marriage.</p>.<p>Footage retrieved from CCTV cameras installed inside the victim's house showed his wife, mother and children pleading with the assailants to let him go.</p>.<p>Special Director General of Police R N Dhoke (Internal Security) met Sukhchain Singh's family on Saturday.</p>
<p>Amritsar: A day after an NRI was shot at inside his house here, police on Sunday arrested five people, including the father of the victim's first wife, in connection with the incident.</p>.<p>Efforts are being made to nab the two criminals who shot at Sukhchain Singh, who recently returned from the US, and are on the run, they said.</p>.<p>The assailants intercepted Sukhchain Singh when he was leaving his house in Daburji village on the outskirts of the city here for a morning walk on Saturday.</p>.<p>They barged into his house and fired three shots at him before fleeing. Two of the bullets hit Sukhchain Singh -- one in the head and the other near the chest. He is stated to be out of danger, according to police.</p>.NRI shot at by armed assailants in front of wife and kids at his Amritsar home.<p>Addressing the media here, Amritsar Police Commissioner Ranjit Singh Dhillon said the attack on Sukhchain Singh was carried out at the behest of the family of his first wife.</p>.<p>His first wife had committed suicide in December 2022 and her family nursed a grudge against him, he said.</p>.<p>Two criminals, Sukhwinder alias Sukha and Gurkirat Singh alias Guri, were hired to kill Sukhchain Singh, police said.</p>.<p>"We are after the assailants," Dhillon said.</p>.<p>Those arrested are Sarwan Singh, the father of Sukhchain Singh's first wife and a resident of Bains village in Hoshiarpur; Jagjit Singh and Chamkaur Singh of Tarn Taran who helped the assailants before committing the crime; hotel owner Digambar Attri and hotel manager Abhilash Bhaskar who provided accommodation to the assailants without asking for ID proofs, the officer said.</p>.<p>The assailants stayed in Attri's hotel before and after committing the crime, according to police.</p>.<p>Dhillon said police have also booked US-based Sukhwinder Singh, Kuljinder Kaur and her husband Jasvir Singh.</p>.<p>Sukhwinder Singh and Kuljinder Kaur are the brother and sister of Sukhchain Singh's first wife respectively.</p>.<p>Sukhchain Singh was shot at in front of his wife, mother and his two children from his first marriage.</p>.<p>Footage retrieved from CCTV cameras installed inside the victim's house showed his wife, mother and children pleading with the assailants to let him go.</p>.<p>Special Director General of Police R N Dhoke (Internal Security) met Sukhchain Singh's family on Saturday.</p>