2 eunuchs among five held on murder charge

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 18

The UT police have confirmed that the death of an Electricity Department employee on Friday was a case of murder. Five persons, including a juvenile and two eunuchs, have been arrested in the case while another accused, also an eunuch, is at large.

Harwinder, Singh, a substation attendant, along with his colleagues, had gone to Azad Colony in Sector 25 yesterday to snap power connection to the house of Vikas and Atul due to non-payment of bill. However, the duo, along with others, allegedly thrashed the power department employee leading to his death. 

The post-mortem of the body will be conducted on Monday after the deceased’s daughter, who is in the USA, reaches here.

A case has been registered under Sections 302, 353, 332, 186, 148 and 147 of the IPC. 

Those arrested are Vikas, Atul, eunuchs Rupali and Malaika and a juvenile. The other accused, Sonam, is on the run. The accused were produced in court, which sent Vikas and Atul to one-day police remand and the two eunuchs to judicial custody. 

The police had not sought remand of the two eunuchs.

Cops’ claim belied

The footage of a CCTV installed in the area (right) shows residents chasing and thrashing electricity department employees in the presence of cops. In a statement on Friday, the UT police had claimed that the electricity department did not inform them about the visit to the colony and hence, no cop was deployed there. However, the CCTV footage shows cops walking along with colony residents as the latter thrash and chase the power men away. The police had also ruled out murder as no apparent injury mark was found on the victim’s body. However, it registered a case of murder on Saturday. Police officials said they had already started a departmental enquiry into the matter and any official found guilty of laxity would be taken to task.