Former Punjab Transport Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar was arrested on Monday in connection with the death by suicide of a Punjab Warehousing Corporation official who had accused the Aam Aadmi Party legislator of harassment, ANI quoted the chief minister’s office as saying.
Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, a district manager of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation in Amritsar, died by suicide at his home on Friday, leaving behind a video in which he purportedly said he was acting out of fear of Bhullar.
In the 12-second recording, the official had stated: “Your friend has consumed poison due to fear of minister Laljit Bhullar; I won’t survive now.”
Bhullar had resigned from his post on Saturday and a first information report was filed in the matter the same night, naming the legislator, his father Sukhdev Singh Bhullar and personal assistant Dilbag Singh, PTI reported.
The three men face Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita charges pertaining to abetment of suicide, criminal intimidation and common intention.
According to the complaint filed by Randhawa’s wife, the three men had pressured her husband to approve tenders for warehouses in the name of the former minister’s father, warning of dire consequences against her family, The Tribune reported.
The complaint further alleged that Randhawa was on March 13 called to Bhullar's home, where he was allegedly humiliated, assaulted and forced...
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