A 46-year-old property dealer who had come from Haryana to Haridwar for taking a holy dip in Ganga along with his three friends died as a bullet seemed to have gone off his licensed revolver accidentally. While the body has been sent for autopsy to the district hospital police are probing the case from all angles to verify whether there was any foul play involved in his death.
Police said that the deceased has been identified as Anil Kumar, resident of Bahadurgarh Jhajjar in Rohtak. As per the police, he had come to Haridwar and rented a room in Sukh Dham in Bhupatwala on Tuesday. The three friends who accompanied him during the trip are Ranvir Singh, Dinesh Kumar and Pradeep. At around 8.30 pm, Anil Kumar remembered that he had left his revolver in the car. While he was bringing it in his room it dropped and bullets whizzed off and pierced him in his stomach. The bleeding property dealer was rushed to RK Mission Hospital where he later succumbed.
Speaking of the incident, SP Crime Prakash Arya said, “Upon being informed, our team rushed to the spot and took the body under custody. Prima facie it is an accident. We talked to the deceased’s brother and he said that there is no possibility of foul play involved in the death. However, we are probing it from all angles to be sure that there was no foul play.”
SP Crime further said that the friends of the deceased run ‘jagran’ party.