Kartik Popli, 27, was allegedly killed, according to his father, despite the police reporting that he committed suicide.
New Delhi: Sanjay Popli’s son, a bureaucrat who was detained in connection with a corruption investigation, passed away from a gunshot wound in Chandigarh today.
“My son was killed in front of me. I am an eyewitness of my son’s death,” Sanjay Popli said. As he claimed that his son was shot by the officials.
A neighbour informed reporters that a vigilance bureau team had visited the bureaucrat’s home as part of the inquiry into the complaint against him and that they were present there when the event occurred.
“The vigilance team was here at Sanjay Popli’s residence and his son Kartik Popli shot and killed himself,” said Kuldeep Chahal, Senior Superintendent Of Police Chandigarh. Mr Chahal.
Chahal added that the youth shot himself with his father’s licensed pistol.
On June 20, Sanjay Popli was detained on suspicion of soliciting a bribe in exchange for approving bids to install a sewage pipeline in Nawanshahr, Punjab.
The vigilance team conducted a raid at the residence of the detained officer today, seizing a number of gold and silver coins, money, mobile phones, and other technological gadgets.
The wife of the detained bureaucrat said to the media that the vigilance officers forced them to make false statements to help their case.
“The vigilance officials were pressuring us and they were even torturing my domestic help to give false statements in support of the case they have registered. My 27-year-old son is gone. He was a brilliant lawyer. They have snatched him,” she added.
“To build a false case, they snatched my son–Kartik Popli is gone,” said Sanjay Popli’s wife, showing her son’s blood on her hands.
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