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Stop worrying about your breath and get cooking with it – every day. Page 17 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2010
❚CRIME/‘Sounded like machine gun fire’ in Panorama Ridge
POSH SURREY HOUSE SPRAYED WITH BULLETS
Radio India boss’s home shot up weeks after he gets bail in temple shooting
Surrey police comb the scene for evidence after Maninder Gill’s home was shot at early Monday morning. Tom ZYTARUK Staff Reporter
SURREY – Radio India boss Maninder Gill’s gated house in Panorama Ridge was struck by at least eight bullets shortly after midnight Monday. No one was injured. Gill, 47, was recently released
on $200,000 bail after being charged with a string of offences related to the shooting of Surrey building contractor Harjit Singh Atwal, 54. Atwal was shot in the thigh outside a wedding at Newton’s Guru Nanak temple on Aug. 28. Gill, the managing director of Surrey’s Punjabi-language
Radio India, turned himself in to police shortly after the shooting and is expected to appear in Surrey provincial court on Sept. 30, charged with discharging a firearm with intent to wound or disfigure, aggravated assault and a string of related firearms offences. Atwal had reportedly been
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feuding with the Newton-based radio station over an alleged defamation and had recently filed a lawsuit against it. That shooting took place in the temple’s parking lot at 70th Avenue and Scott Road, following a wedding attended by about 1,000 guests. see GILL page 6