22-yr-old shot in Nurmahal

Tribune News Service

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Jalandhar, August 10

A 22-year-old man was shot dead in broad daylight at his home in the Nurmahal area here. The incident was reported at around 6.45 am on Tuesday when the victim was sleeping at his house in Khateek Colony. The victim has been identified as Rohit Kumar and the accused as Jaswinder Singh, a resident of Ludhiana.

As per information, before killing Rohit, the accused also shot at his wife and his mother-in-law in the wee hours on Tuesday at his residence in Haibowal, Ludhiana. Both Ludhiana and Jalandhar Rural police have started investigation to nab the accused. A case under Section 302 of the IPC and Section 25 of the Arms Act has been registered against Jaswinder at the Nurmahal police station.

The initial report stated that when the victim was sleeping at his home, the accused, who arrived on his Activa, knocked the gate of the house. The moment Rohit opened the gate, Jaswinder fired one bullet at him. As it missed him, he fired again and the bullet hit the victim’s forehead. After hearing the gunshot, his elder brother Vishal raised an alarm and tried chasing the accused. However, he managed to run away from the spot. The other family members also rushed downstairs.

The victim, lying in a pool of blood, died on the spot. His body was later sent to the Civil Hospital for a postmortem.

Though the motive was not clear, the police suspect that the accused killed the victim due to alleged extramarital affair between him and the killer’s wife. Both of them were reportedly known to each other and the victim even used to visit his house.

SSP, Rural Police, Navin Singh, who reached the spot along with the DSP, Nakodar, stated that police teams had been formed to trace the accused and the registration number of his vehicle recovered.

The police in a joint operation also managed to recover some CCTV footages, from which the identification of the accused was confirmed. SHO, Nurmahal, Inspector Jatinder Kumar said two bullet shells were recovered from the spot and an illegal weapon was apparently used by the accused.