Retired Punjab assistant IG shoots son-in-law, an ICAS officer, in court docket | Chandigarh Information

Police and forensic consultants examine the realm of crime on the Chandigarh district court docket.

CHANDIGARH: A retired assistant inspector normal of Punjab Police shot lifeless his estranged son-in-law and Indian Civil Accounts Service officer in Chandigarh district court docket on Saturday afternoon.
In line with police, Malwinder Singh Sidhu fired at Harpreet Singh (37), who was posted because the controller of accounts in Union ministry of agriculture and farmers’ welfare in Delhi, round 2pm, when each of them had come for a listening to in a matrimonial dispute between Harpreet and his spouse, Dr Amitoj Kaur.
ASI Anita and a court docket worker shortly caught Sidhu and detained him in a room till cops arrived. Harpreet was rushed to PGI in a non-public automotive, however medical doctors pronounced him lifeless on arrival. Senior officers, together with Chandigarh SSP Kanwardeep Kaur, together with a forensic crew, arrived on the scene. An FIR was filed in opposition to Sidhu for muder and below sections 25, 27, 54, and 59 of the Arms Act. Police seized a pistol (level 32 bore), 4 fired bullets, and three unused bullets from the scene.