Amritsar MP’s brother-in-law kills self with guard’s rifle

AMRITSAR: Harpreet Singh Kohri, the forty-year-old brother-in-law of Congress’s

Amritsar

MP, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, committed suicide here on Wednesday. He shot himself with his security personnel’s

carbine

. Kohri is survived by his wife and two children, including a 14-yearold daughter and eight-yearold son.


Senior superintendent of police Parampal Singh said that Harpreet, a resident of Bua Nangli village, had left behind a suicide note naming 17 people for being responsible for his death. This included six farmers. The police officer added that all those who were mentioned in the suicide note had borrowed money from him and not paid back.

Sources said that Kohri, a commission agent, owed around Rs 2.5 crore to

rice

shellers and farmers and was depressed as he was not getting his money back. His wife

Amandeep Kaur

has given statement to the police against the 17 people following which they have been booked for abetment to suicide. “We are investigating and yet to make arrests,” said the SSP.


MP’s relative blames councillor kin

In the suicide note written on his firm, Kohri Trading Company’s letterhead, he has blamed one Mandeep Singh, a relative of a municipal councillor and a businessman, for not clearing the debts.

“Mandeep Singh had embezzled my Rs 90 lakh and Varun Sachdeva had promised to give me his flat in Punjabi Bagh in Delhi but neither he gave me possession of the flat nor paid back the money,” Kohri claimed in the note.

In the note, he has also said that he didn’t remember the names of some of the persons who had borrowed money from him, but their names were mentioned in the ledger.