Kartik Popli, 27, was allegedly killed, according to his father, despite the police reporting that he committed suicide.
New Delhi: Sanjay Popliโs son, a bureaucrat who was detained in connection with a corruption investigation, passed away from a gunshot wound in Chandigarh today.
โMy son was killed in front of me. I am an eyewitness of my sonโs death,โ 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 bureaucratโs home as part of the inquiry into the complaint against him and that they were present there when the event occurred.
โThe vigilance team was here at Sanjay Popliโs residence and his son Kartik Popli shot and killed himself,โ said Kuldeep Chahal, Senior Superintendent Of Police Chandigarh. Mr Chahal.
Chahal added that the youth shot himself with his fatherโs 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.
โThe 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,โ she added.
โTo build a false case, they snatched my sonโKartik Popli is gone,โ said Sanjay Popliโs wife, showing her sonโs blood on her hands.
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