Punjab woman drives 7km with four gunshot wounds to head and face

MUKTSAR: A 42-year-old woman drove 7km to a police station with three gunshots to the head and one to the face in Punjab’s Muktsar to register a complaint against her brother and nephew over a land dispute gone violent, police said on Friday.

The woman, Sumeet Kaur, said her nephew, a student of Class 10, shot at her and her mother, Sukhjinder Kaur, 65, in a fit of rage over the land dispute in Samewali village of Muktsar on Wednesday evening.

Sukhjinder suffered two bullet injuries in one of her legs.

Police booked the woman’s nephew and her brother Harinder

Singh. A search is on for both the accused.

On reaching the police station, Sumeet was rushed to a private hospital where doctors removed the bullets.

Both the women are out of danger.

“After the attack, the victim drove to the police station. We quickly took her in an ambulance and got her admitted to a hospital. The matter is being investigated,” station house officer, SHO, Lakhewali, Krishan Singh said.

A case was registered under Sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 120-B (punishment for criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Arms Act.

“We are surprised that she survived even after three bullets were lodged in the head. Fortunately, the bullets fractured her skull but failed to enter the brain. She is out of danger now,” Mukesh Bansal, a doctor at the hospital where the women were treated, said.

In her complaint, Sumeet said, “We had 40 acres and after my father’s death, it was divided among my mother, brother and me. I got 16 acres. However, my brother wants to grab our share. He sent his son to kill us.”

Her mother, Sukhjinder, said, “My son has assaulted us in the past too. It is by the grace of God that we survived even after receiving bullet injuries. We demand justice now.”