Murder accused attempts suicide at police station

Amit Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 24

One of the accused arrested by the Chandigarh Police in the murder case of a 38-year-old marketing head of Reliance Jio allegedly tried to commit suicide in the interrogation room at the Mani Majra police station today. Three accused in the murder case are in police custody at the station.

Sources said Munish, Akash and Amir had been arrested by the Mani Majra police in the murder case of Vineet, a resident of Modern Housing Complex, who was hacked to death on the road opposite Uppal Housing Apartments at Mani Majra on July 30.

The sources said Munish, a resident of New Indira Colony, Mani Majra, who was kept in the interrogation room, tried to slit his neck around 12.30 am.

The accused broke a tube light of the room and tried to slit his neck with the glass. Constable Ajmer Singh and Home Guards volunteers Sunil and Randhir, who were on duty, saw the victim and rushed him to a government hospital in Mani Majra.

A case under Section 309 (attempt to suicide) of the IPC has been registered against the accused on a statement of the constable at the Mani Majra police station.

The sources said Munish used to threaten the other two accused in the lock-up and was thus kept in the interrogation room.

The victim, who was working at the Mohali Phase VII office of Reliance, was killed with a sharp weapon.

At the time of the incident, the victim was sitting in his Mahindra XUV and talking on the mobile phone. The incident was caught on a CCTV camera, but the footage was not clear. It showed three men coming on a motorcycle and sitting in the victim’s vehicle. After sometime, they came out of the vehicle arguing with the victim. In a fit of rage, they hit him on his head with a sharp weapon. The victim fell on the road. As Vineet lay in a pool of blood, the accused fled on their bike.