Ggm cop convicted of killing judge’s wife, son in 2018
GURUGRAM: The Gurugram district and sessions court on Thursday held 32-year-old Mahipal Singh, a personal security officer, guilty of shooting the wife and son of an additional sessions judge, in broad daylight, at the Arcadia Market in Sector 49 on October 13, 2018. Sudhir Parmar, the additional sessions judge, will pronounce the quantum of punishment for the double murder on Friday.
Singh was attached to additional sessions judge Krishan Kant and was escorting his family at the time of the incident. He has been lodged in Bhondsi jail since the incident, the police said.
Charges were framed against Singh under sections 302 (murder) and 201(destruction of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act on January 9, 2019, for the double murder.
The court had framed the charges after submitting the final investigation report by the police in the first week of last January.
The police had listed 81 witnesses, of whom 64 recorded their statements in court, including doctors from Paras Hospital, where the injured were first taken, and Medanta Hospital, where the victims died, forensic experts and police personnel associated with the investigation.
Vishal Gupta, counsel for Kant, said, “Now, the case is posted for advancing arguments and pronouncement of sentence to be imposed on Singh. In lieu of the magnitude of the terrifying insane act and the brutality exhibited by PSO while executing the crime in question, the prosecution will pray to the court for an exemplary punishment, which is a death sentence, to be imposed upon him.”
He said that the dying declaration of the victim to a judge was more than sufficient to establish the crime.
Singh, a resident of Bhungarka village in Haryana’s Narnaul, had been with the judge’s family since April 2017, when he was posted to a Gurugram court.
The police said that Singh was escorting Kant’s wife Ritu, 38, and son Dhruv, 18, to Arcadia Market when he shot them with his service revolver (.38 bore). He shot Ritu twice in the chest and stomach and Dhruv thrice, once on the shoulder and twice in the head.
Within minutes of the incident, eyewitnesses had started sharing video clips on social media. In one such clip, the PSO was seen trying to shift the unconscious boy to the rear seat of the judge’s white car.