In a gruesome incident, a 27- year-old woman was shot dead in her house at Sector 49, late on Thursday. Police said that soon before the victim was shot dead, she was also attacked by a sharp edged weapon. No accused has been arrested so far.
The victim, Puneet Sandhu, a native of Patiala, was living in Chandigarh with Amit Chaudhary, who was already married and was father of two children. The incident came to light around 10.30 pm, when Amit reached at Sandhu’s house and found her lying in a pool of blood inside the residence. Amit told police that he kept knocking at the door but she did not open. After that Amit when he pushed the door it got opened.
Amit immediately picked her up and wrapped her in a sheet and also called up Puneet’s sister. Puneet was rushed to the Sector-32 Government Medical College and Hospital where she was declared brought dead. The local police was informed by the hospital authorities.
Meanwhile, in a complainant to police, Puneet’s sister, Avneet Kaur, has given a statement, raising suspicion on Ram lal, father of Amit as he was against of the relationship between Puneet and Amit.
Puneet and Amit were in a live-in relationship for the past two years. On Thursday, Amit left in the evening from sector 49 after his friend called him. Amit attempted to contact Puneet around 9 pm, but she did not answer the calls. However he got dinner packed and reached the house and found her dead. He entered and saw her body lying in a pool of blood in the room.
later at night the police reached the spot along with Amit and the CFSl team was also called. Police sources said they recovered three bullets and one cartridge of 7.5 mm pistol.
Avneet in her complaint told the police that Ram lal was against Puneet and his son Amit’s relationship, as Amit was already married. Ram lal had earlier also threatened the deceased, the sister has alleged in her complaint. She said on Thursday afternoon at about 12 noon also Ram lal threatened her. Meanwhile Maninder Singh, Station House Office of police station, Sector-34 said that the postmortem report of the deceased has revealed that she received three bullets in her head. A case of murder under Section 302 of IPC and arms act has been registered against unknown person.