A weapon recovery operation in Chandigarh turned into a gunfight on Saturday morning when the main suspect in a 17-year-old student’s murder allegedly shot at a police officer before being wounded in retaliatory firing. The accused attempted to flee in the Sector 50 forest area and fired at an assistant sub-inspector, whose bulletproof jacket absorbed the strike.

The encounter unfolded when the Chandigarh Police Operations Cell team took the accused, Manmehar Preet Singh alias Mann, and his brother Arsh Mehar to the spot for recovery of weapons allegedly linked to the murder of Naitik Khandelwal, a Class 12 student. Both brothers were arrested on Friday.…