Soldier shot dead by police, when he killed 4 of his relatives

Chandigarh: On Tuesday, according to the police, a soldier shot dead four of his relatives, including a minor, in a village in Punjab’s Sangrur district and when the police surrounded him and asked him to surrender, he refused and that is why the police shot him dead.

Jagdeep Singh used a 12-bore double-barrel gun to kill two of his aunts, Labh Kaur and Karnail Kaur, his sister-in-law Gurpreet Kaur and minor Harmandeep Singh.

Police said, the killings were connected to a dispute that took place in the family over property. Police sources said that there is a possibility of the soldier being drunk when he carried out the killings.

Once he finished killing his relatives, he went to the roof of his house. Village residents informed police who surrounded the house and asked him to surrender. However, when he fired at the police party, the fire returned that killed him.

Some other villagers were also injured in the firing by the soldier.

Jagdeep Singh was posted in Jammu and Kashmir and was on long leave and had come 160 km from here, to his village.