The family of a former sarpanch who was brutally done to death on Tuesday morning has charged Haryana’s transport minister Om Prakash Jain and chief parliamentary secretary Zile Ram Sharma of ordering the killing.
The deceased, Karam Singh, was found dead outside the Karnal-based National Dairy Research Institute with multiple stab injuries following which the local police authorities registered a case of murder against five unidentified assailants.
But the victim’s family insists he was murdered at the behest of the minister and the CPS. He was killed only hours after he submitted a written complaint to chief minister Bhupinder Hooda against Jain and Zile Ram.
His son Rajinder Singh said, “My father left the home for Zile Ram’s house on Tuesday morning. Then he called me after sometime and said that he was going to the PWD rest house with Zile Ram’s men. We did not hear from him after that and later the same afternoon police informed us about his dead body.”
In his complaint to the CM Karam Singh accused the transport minister and the CPS of duping him of `13 lakhs. He said they had promised to arrange government jobs for his son and two nephews but had instead begun threatening him when he sought his money back after they failed to deliver.
Meanwhile, hundreds of townspeople demonstrated in favour of the victim’s family which is demanding that Mr Jain and Mr Zile Ram’s names be included amongst the accused in the murder FIR.