A police officer with Haryana police first shot his married daughter dead and then ended his life too by shooting himself from his service revolver at his residence in Sisar Khaas village under the jurisdiction of Meham Police station here on Saturday.
The deceased Sub-Inspector (SI) identified as Baljeet Singh (56), was posted as In-charge of City Police post in Jhajjar town while his daughter Savita (25) had been residing at her maternal house for over a year due to strained relationship with her in-laws. A suicide note from pocket of Baljeet has also been recovered wherein he held his daughter’s in-laws responsible for taking this extreme step.
The Meham police have started investigation after registering a case of abetment to suicide against Sarita’s in-laws on the basis of suicide note. Family members of Baljeet told the police that they were sitting in a room when the incident took place. On hearing the sound of gun-shots they went to courtyard of the house and found Baljeet and Sarita lying in a pool of blood. Baljeet died on the spot while Sarita succumbed to her injuries at casualty ward of the PGIMS Rohtak.
Rohtak SP Rajesh Duggal along with other police officials rushed to the spot on getting information and sent the body to PGIMS for postmortem examination after taking stock of the situation. later, a team of forensic experts also visited the scene of crime and lift some blood samples from there. Confirming the recovery of suicide note, Narender Pal, SHO of the Meham Police station, said a case against Sarita’s in-laws had been booked under Section 306 of the India Penal Code (IPC).”Statements of kin of the deceased are being recorded to verify the veracity behind the incident,” he added.