A sub-inspector of Haryana Police was shot dead by a youth on the National Highway-10 near Kheri Saadh village, about 10 km away from the district headquarter, on late Friday.
The deceased Balwan Sharma, 51, of Aanwali village in Sonepat, was posted as in-charge at Kharawar Police Post. Constable Harvinder Singh, also sustained gun-shot injuries in the fatal attack, who has been admitted to PGIMS where his condition is stated to be out of danger.
This was the fourth incident of attack on police personnel in home district of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda during last six months wherein a retired Inspector and an SI have been murdered while four other cops suffered injuries. The police have registered a case of murder against an unidentified youth in this regard but no arrests have been made so far.
The incident took place when Balwan Sharma was coming back to the police post from Kheri Sadh village in his official jeep after investigating a woman missing case. Constable Harvinder was driving the jeep.
As soon as they reached outside the village, three labourers of Ch Ranbir Singh Modern Industrial Township (IMT) stopped the jeep and while pointing towards a youth, who was roaming there, said he had snatched their money and mobile phones, said the police.
The youth opened fire on Balwan Singh from a pistol after being nabbed and pushed by him to sit in the jeep. The youth also fired on the driver Harvinder Singh when he came to rescue his in-charge. The killer and the labourers fled from the spot after the incident.
later, a motor-cyclist passing by informed the Kharawar police post about the incident after spotting Balwan Sharma and Harvinder lying in a pool of blood on the road. Other staffers of the police post rushed to the spot and took them to PGIMS immediately where Balwan was declared brought dead.
Rohtak SP Vivek Sharma, DSP Pushpa Khatri and other cops, on getting information, reached the spot and took stock of the situation. later, a team of forensic experts also visited the scene of crime and lifted some blood samples from there.
“Four teams have been constituted to nab the killer who is yet to be identified. Statements of some villagers who were roaming nearby at the time of incident are being recorded to find out the clue about the killer,” said a police official.
Body of Balwan Sharma was on Saturday handed over to his kin after postmortem. Earlier, a large number of people from Aanwali village gathered at postmortem house in the PGIMS and demanded immediate arrest of the killer of the cop.
They later called on IGP of the Rohtak Range who also assured them to nab the killer soon stating that sincere efforts were being made to nab him.