Ex-Cop Shoots Dead Bureaucrat Son-In-Law Inside Chandigarh Court

The victim, Harpreet Singh, was an IRS officer (Indian Revenue Service) in the irrigation department.

A bureaucrat was shot dead inside a court in Chandigarh this afternoon allegedly by his father-in-law, a suspended assistant inspector general of the Punjab police. The victim, Harpreet Singh, was an IRS officer (Indian Revenue Service) in the irrigation department.

There was allegedly a domestic dispute going on between the families of the victim and the accused and both the parties had reached the Chandigarh Family Court in connection with the same matter.

A mediation session was underway between both sides when the accused - Malwinder Singh Sidhu - excused himself to use the washroom and his son-in-law offered to show him the way. Both went out of the room. Moments later, five shots were heard.