The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Haryana Police has been constituted to investigate the Saturday shooting in which an Additional Session’s Judge wife and his son were attacked by the personal security officer of the Judge. The incident left wife dead while the son is battling for his life. Even as the highly placed sources in the Haryana Police on condition of anonymity said that the head constable was allegedly enraged as the mother-son duo used to pass "taunts" over his alleged conversion to Christianity.
The team will be headed by the Deputy Commissioner of police (East), Sulochna Gajraj including three Assistant Commissioner of police (ACP) and four inspector rank officials. Several top officials of the Haryana police visited the crime spot on Sunday and sought detailed reports from the concerned officials.
The department on Sunday dismissed Mahipal, the accused head constable, from service with immediate effect under Article 311 (2) of the constitution of India.
Meanwhile, the local court on Sunday sent the 32-year-old Mahipal Singh, the former personal security officer (PSO) of additional session’s Judge Krishan Kant Sharma in connection with the case on four days of police remand. The investigation team had sought seven days of police remand.
Earlier on Saturday the police had questioned the accused and had reportedly indicated that he might be mentally unstable. However, the police have not found any medical history or any medicine from his possession and it is reportedly being assumed that the accused is mentally stable.
Highly placed sources said the accused head constable had converted to Christianity around a week before the incident. The judge’s son and wife reportedly used to taunt Mahipal over his change of religion. Sources within the police department said this is also being regarded as one of the possible reasons behind the terrible incident. The accused claimed to have visited Church, Temple and Mosque.
The SIT will find out the motive behind the incident as throughout the day the police officials were unable to disclose the mystery behind the crime.
Also, a team of a medical board on Sunday conducted the autopsy of the Judge Krishan Kant’s wife Ritu (37) who was shot in the chest twice in the incident later on Saturday night succumbed to her injuries at the hospital.
“The cause of death of the victim was excess bleeding and shocked. The body has been handed over to the family after the medical examination,” Doctor Deepak Mather, who conducted the autopsy, said.
Meanwhile, the teenaged boy Dhruv (17) who was shot twice in the head and once in the shoulder is still critical and is on life support at the Medanta Hospital.
“We took him on remand and after the questioning, we will be able to say anything about the motive behind the crime,” SIT head Sulochna Gajraj told reporters on Sunday.
She said a preliminary investigation has revealed that the PSO lost his cool after he was reportedly admonished for not taking out the car from the parking. However, the police said that the motive behind firing is not clear yet.
“The accused is keeping changing his statement he told us that he was worried and has some tensions. The further questioning into the matter is on. We are investigating the matter from all possible angles,” the DCP, said.”There is some mystery behind the incident. During the probe, we will disclose the actual facts behind the mystery as what was actually happened before the incident,” Gajraj said.
The probe team said, “The accused told them he has eliminated the ‘Shaitan’ and his mother.”
Meanwhile, the DCP said Yes, he had been speaking about Shaitan and it seems to his habitual word and was also talking about several religions.”
A case was filed against the PSO on the complaint of additional session’s judge Krishan Kant Sharma at Sector-50 police station. “On Saturday at about 3.30 pm while I was in the court complex during the course of my duty hours, I received a phone call my PSO Mahipal and he told that he had shot my wife Ritu and son Dhruv, the Judge claimed in the First Information Report (FIR) to the police.
Earlier on Saturday, Wife and son of the Additional District and Sessions Judge of Gurugram local court were shot at and injured in full public view by their Personal Security Officer at Arcadia Market in South City-II.
The culprit was arrested within two hours of the incident on the Gurugram-Faridabad Road.
