The police said Singh, a resident of Mohali, was also allegedly present in Sector 15, where two groups clashed on Monday night. The Police Control Room was informed that gunshots were fired during the clash.

“Throughout the night, we kept looking for the miscreants but later we came to know that no gunshots were fired, but the noise of a motorbike was mistaken as gunshots,” another police officer said.

Students in the hotspot

A senior police officer said the police have information about a group of students, who carry arms around the city. “We are in the process of developing intelligence about a particular group of students of various colleges and university departments, who have become a menace. Some of them carry unlicenced arms and ammunition. We have certain vital inputs and are in the process of tightening the noose around them,” the officer said.