Bathinda, June 27 (Reporter) Punjab Police have averted possible target killings in the state with the arrest of three shooters associated with Gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldy Brar in Bhatinda district, state Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said here on Thursday. The joint operation as conducted by a team of Counter Intelligence (CI) Bathinda and Bathinda police. Those arrested have been identified as Karandeep Singh alias Kannu of Navi Basti in Maur Mandi, Raghuveer Singh and Kulwinder Singh alias Bittu, both of village Kot Shamir in Bathinda. Police teams also recovered three pistols including a 9mm and two .32 bore along with six live cartridges and six magazines from their possession, besides impounding their car. Yadav said acting on intel inputs that associates of Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldy Brar are planning to execute target killings in district Bathinda, Mohali and nearby areas, police teams from CI Bathinda and Bathinda Police launched an operation and laid a joint naka at Maur Chowk to nab the shooters. He said the arrests were made when the accused were coming towards Bathinda from Maur. Preliminary investigation has revealed that accused Karandeep Kannu was directly in touch with Lawrence Bishnoi and the recovered weapons were meant to be used by them to carry out targetted killings. He said further investigation was on to trace the forward and backward linkages in this case. AIG CI Bathinda Avneet Kaur Sidhu said police teams have identified two more operatives of the module and raids are being conducted to nab them. SSP Bathinda Deepak Pareek said a case has been registered at Maur police station...////...