Odisha Juggernauts won an encounter that was too close to call till the final whistle, with Rohan Singade frustrating Gujarat Giants attackers in the final turn and making the difference.
A Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist involved in the killing of an army officer and Kashmiri Pandits was gunned down in an anti-terror operation in the Shopian district, the police informed on Friday.
The encounter took place around 3:30 am in district Sultanpur in which Vinod Upadhyay was seriously injured by the bullet. He was brought to the medical college in Sultanpur for treatment where he died during treatment.
A wanted gangster carrying a Rs 25,000 bounty on his head was arrested following a brief exchange of fire with the police in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district.
According to officials, the encounter in the Hadigam area of Kulgam district is currently underway. Police, Army, and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officials are on the spot.
UP Yoddhas have faced the Paltans ten times previously across all editions of PKL, and have emerged at the top on six occasions. In their last encounter of the previous season, the Yoddhas went down 31-40 against the Paltans
A 6-month-old girl was killed and her mother was hurt in a firing between security forces and Naxalites in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, on Monday, which also left two District Reserve Guard jawans injured, an official said.
The UP Yoddhas who went down 30-38 against Gujarat Giants in their last match are currently sitting in the tenth position in the table with 15 points and a score difference of 15 and will surely go into this encounter with strong support from their home crowd