by piyush sarnamohali a man accused of a murder in october 2015 shot at a prime witness in the case after failing to persuade him to retract his statement against him at his house in kumbra on fridaythe victim is veer singh he sells earthenware products near the kumbra light point manish prabhakar the main accused who hails from barnala and his friend rajwinder singh raju from dhuri came to the house of veer around 615amkamalpreet singh the son of the victim said when i was coming down the staircase i saw two men arguing with my father after some time manish pushed my father and opened fire my mother was also there and both of us ran upstairs seeta devi the victims wife said she offered the two water and tea they talked for around five minutes and then manish took out a gun and fired three shots at veer she allegedpolice suspect the accused used a countrymade pistol one bullet struck the right shoulder of veer while the others hit the back of one of his legs veer was taken to a private hospital in phase viii in a car he is out of danger doctors saidsources said the duo came in a skoda car while fleeing they entered the back seat with an unidentified man at the wheel police said both the accused were caught on cctv camerassenior superintendent of police ssp kuldeep singh chahal said the accused was under trial and released on bail phase viii police station house officer subinspector shivdeep singh brar said the accused was offering veer money to turn hostile as veer refused he opened fire the accused was behind bars for three years and out on bail prabhakar was to be produced in the court on october 22police registered a case under sections 307 and 452 of the indian penal code and sections 25 and 27 of the arms act at the phase viii police station