Two murders perpetrated on Tuesday night rocked the home town of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, which is already under heavy fire from various quarters due to persistently rising crime graph in the town.
A car-borne youth carried out a deadly attack on a moving truck carrying 45 people on the Rohtak-Jind road near Delhi Public School here around 12: 30 am without any reason.
32-year-old Gurpreet Singh of Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab sitting on the conductor seat in the truck suffered the bullet injuries in the assault while the assailant sped away after committing the crime. Though Gurpreet was rushed to PGIMS for treatment but he was declared brought dead there.
According to the police, the truck was on a journey to a religious place in Nanded Saheb from Fatehagarh Sahib when the assault was carried out. Other occupants of the truck said there was no issue with the car-borne unidentified assailant as the truck was on its side.
“The assailant opened fire on the truck from the right side and sped away. The bullet hit Gurpreet who was sitting at drive cabin along with other ones,” said the police, adding that a case of murder had been registered against unidentified killer in this regard.
A group of 45 people had started their religious journey from Rampur Kalera village in Fatehagarh Sahib on Tuesday noon but had to return to their village late last night after killing of Gurpreet.
"We have begun probe into the matter and efforts are being made to find out the identification of the car-borne youth," said the police, adding that the killer would be identified and nabbed soon.
In the second incident, a youth identified as Monu was murdered by some youths at Gandhi Camp locality Tuesday night. Old dispute is believed to the reason behind the killing while the police have started investigation after booking a case in this regard.
As per the police, Monu had gone out from his house after having dinner. He was strolling nearby his house when the youths assaulted him with blunt object. Monu died on the spot while the killers fled.