Murdered Air Force corporal’s family alleges ‘delay’ in action
Sukhmeet Bhasin
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, February 22
In the murder case of Indian Air Force (IAF) corporal Vipan Shukla, his relatives today lashed out at the police and Air Force authorities for “delay” in acting on their complaint.
Father and wife of the deceased, Triveni Shukla and Kumkum Shukla, respectively, claimed that they had lodged the missing complaint on February 9, but despite their repeated requests, no search was conducted at the staff quarters of the Bhisiana air station.
They claimed that even the police did not register case earlier. It was registered on February 15 after the DGP instructed Bathinda SSP Swapan Sharma and further he instructed the SHO.
They even wrote letters to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Home Minister, Defence Minister, Chief Justice of India, Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court and Human Rights Commission on February 18.
They alleged that when the police reached the Bhisiana air force station, they were not allowed to enter citing that it was their internal matter.
They claimed that on February 21, the police along with the air force authorities recovered the body from the staff quarters of the air force station.
Kumkum claimed that the accused couple use to visit their house daily without fail, but after February 8 when Vipan went missing they did not come to their place. She said she even told the police to raid the couple’s house, but they did not heed to her complaint.
Corporal Vipan’s body was found chopped and packed in 16 packets from the refrigerator and cupboard in the house of sergeant Shailesh Kumar. The accused had killed Vipan on February 8, but chopped the body into pieces on February 19.
The police today produced the accused couple —Shaliesh Kumar and Anuradha — in the court and took two days of police remand for further interrogation.
The body also has been sent to Faridkot for postmortem.
Bathinda police station SHO Ved Parkash said they were not allowed to enter the air force station, but they carried on the search operation outside the air force station. When they got permission to enter inside yesterday, they recovered the body.
