Suicide note names Punjab Police, UT Admn officials

Amit Bathla

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, July 24

Even 48 hours after a 75-year-old Mohali-based businessman Gurkirpal Singh reportedly committed suicide due to alleged harassment at the hands of HPCL officials, the UT Administration, the Punjab Police, the Panchkula Police said they were yet to scrutinise the identity of the six accused mentioned in the FIR as they did not have just one thing to focus on.

Inspector Lalit Kumar, SHO at the Sector 5 police station, said, “We are yet to scrutinise the identity of the accused. We will interrogate the family members of the victim for their identification as the suicide note mentioned very limited information about them.”

He said, “We don’t know whether all of them are HPCL officials.

FIR mentions 6 names

The FIR mentioned six persons — Shalabh Raj Gupta, Rajeev Bansal, Vijay Kumar Kamra, Rakesh Kamra, Ishan Kamra, Nikhil Sood — as accused and the complaint was submitted by the victim’s son, Harmeet Singh.

The suicide notice assessed by the Chandigarh Tribune also accused Punjab Police and UT Administration officials of harassment. However, the police are yet to clarify whether they have booked anyone from these two departments.

What the suicide note says

The suicide note, carried in the FIR, read, “I have committed suicide due to harassment by HPCL officials Shalabh Raj, Rajiv Bansal and Nikhil Sood, Vijay Kumar Kamra, Rakesh Kumar and Ishan. By way of cheating, they snatched my property, which was in the name of my wife Jagjeet Kaur Chawla, at Daun on the Chandigarh-Kharar road with the help of the Punjab Police. I had gone bankrupt due to the lowering of VAT by the Chandigarh Administration at the behest of Amanpreet Singh Oberoi and other IOC dealers by bribing Chd ETC Mr Choudhary and Finance Secy Sinha.”

“Police officials, by registering a false case against my family, asked for a huge bribe for which the CBI laid a trap and arrested four persons on August 13, 2015…… I have been a simple businessman who could not fight corrupt HPCL officials, Kamras, Chd adm…..” the note added.

FIR yet to be uploaded online

A copy of the FIR is yet to be uploaded on the official website of the Haryana Police, Har Samay, which is a clear violation of the Supreme Court 2016 order.