AIG among 5 booked in travel agent’s suicide case

A day after an immigration consultant allegedly shot himself dead inside a bank here, the Mohali police on Wednesday registered an FIR against Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Gurjot Singh Kaler, ASI Rishi Rana and three others on the charges of criminal conspiracy and abetment to suicide.

Rajdeep Singh (45), a resident of Sector 80 in Mohali, had allegedly died by suicide using his licensed revolver inside the HDFC bank in Sector 68. The others booked are Phase 8 residents Sunil Agarwal, a chartered accountant and property dealer; Rinku Krishna, a caterer, and Ferozepur resident Saina Arora.

In his Rajdeep’s father Paramjeet Singh alleged his son was forcibly taken to the bank to secure a loan for repaying the money the suspects had invested in the victim’s immigration business when he “died by suicide”. He alleged the AIG and others had been harassing his son and threatening to implicate him and his family in false cases if their money wasn’t returned.

“In February, my son returned Rs 1.60 crore to Kaler. The AIG had also invested Rs 2.4 crore in the business of Rajdeep’s old associate Sunil Aggarwal. Kaler had secured blank cheques from my son,” he said.

The complainant alleged that Rajdeep had also invested Rs 2.46 crore in Aggarwal’s property business. “My son had also vouched for Rs 3.5 crore invested by Sector 80 resident Gurdial Singh in Aggarwal’s business. Accused Rinku Krishna and Saina Arora, who own an immigration firm in Ferozepur, were also Rajdeep’s partners and owed him Rs 40 lakh. The suspects were not returning my son’s money and instead threatening him of dire consequences. Kaler used to send policemen to Rajdeep’s office and house and call him to his home,” he alleged in the FIR.